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'. · The present writer has already contributed a paper regarding the evolution of the large administrative units, the wilayet, the shiqq and later sarkar, during the Sultanate period;' In this article an attempt has been made to study the origin and positioncf the shiqqdar, who worked in the capacity of an executive officer at the pcrganal) level, and kept a military contingent for the maintenance of peace and order in his jurisdiction.
Similarly, the newly-created iqta' of Amroha was reserved for Khalisa, and was governed by the diwan of Wizarat through different officers directly appointed by the Sultan.
"! This clearly shows that the shiqqdars and faujdars were important army officers, posted in die shiqqs and parganahs for maintaining peace and order there.
Sultan reserved the city of Lahore for Khalisa and assigned the dependent parganah of its wilayet to different nobles to maintain army .
We are informed that Sultan Firuz Shah appointed a shiqqdar in the ~ty of Hisar Firuza which he had founded and made the headquarters of a shiqq, (View the image of this page) inatead of the former town of Hansi, in 1356.
Moreover, the documentary evidence available shows that the shiqqdar appointed in a large and important parganah of Khalisa was a high noble.
A farman issued by Sultan Ibrahim Lodi throws important light on the fact that the big parganah of Sandila was under Khalisa and its civil and revenue administration was entrusted to a shiqqdar who held the rank of malik.