Note 18 — INTRODUCTION.
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Under Musalmán rule great part of Gujarát was always in the hands of jágírdárs. So powerful were they that on two occasions under the Áhmedábád kings, in a.d. 1554 and a.d. 1572, the leading Introduction. Condition of Gujarát, a.d. 1297–1760. nobles distributed among themselves the entire area of the kingdom.18 Again, during the eighteenth century, when Mughal rule was on the decline, the jágírdárs by degrees won for themselves positions of almost complete independence.19