• In fixing the land revenue, continuity of cultivation was taken into account. Land which remained under cultivation almost every year was called Polaj. When it remained uncultivated, it was called Parati (fallow).

• Parati land paid at the full (Polaj) rate, when it was cultivated. Land which had been fallow for two to three years was called Chachar and Banjar, if longer than that. These were assessed at concessional rates; the revenue demand gradually rising till the full or Polaj rate was paid in the fifth or the eighth year. In this way, the state helped in bringing virgin and uncultivated wasteland under cultivation.

• Land was classified further into good, middling and bad. One-third of the average produce was the state demand, but it varied according to the productivity of the land, the method of assessment, etc.

• Nasaq was a rough calculation of the amount payable by the peasant on the basis of what he had been paying in the past. It was widely used in Akbar’s time.