1 36 LAND TENURES. A. D. 1773.
2 A Tabadar was on the other hand a retainer, as the
3 word is understood in Europe, one completely subser-
4 vient ; the lands which were his reward, were liable to
5 forfeiture for any act of disobedience or rebellion, and
6 at the caprice of the Sirdar might be resumed upon any
7 occasion of displeasure.
8 The third class of tenures or Jageers were given to
9 needy relations, dependents, and entertained soldiers
10 who deserved well, and the holders were liable to be
11 called upon for their personal services at all times, with
12 their quotas or contingents, equipped and mounted at
13 their own charge, according to the extent of the grant.
14 These were even further under the power of the Sirdar
15 than the Tabadaree grants. Both were hereditary only
16 according to his pleasure, the lands of them formed part
17 of the allotment set apart for the Sirdaree, and the Misul,
18 or association, had, of course, nothing to say in such
19 assignments.
20 The religious and charitable appropriations and grants,
21 viz, those made to Sikh Gooroos, Soodees, and Baidees,
22 or to endowments for temples, and for charitable distribu-
23 tions of alms, and sometimes even to Moosulman Peer-
24 zadas, need no description, for they had nothing to dis-
25 tinguish them from what are found all over India.
26 The above explanation has been necessary to give
27 some idea of the state of things, which resulted from the
28 two provinces of Labor and Sirhind being left to be
29 occupied by the Sikhs, when, finally abandoned by the
30 Afghans, as they had previously been by the Moghul and
31 Dehlee officers. The European reader will at once be