Chekuty, FASLI is the chronological system devised by the Mughal emperor Akbar<https://mail.google.com/EBchecked/topic/11421/Akbar>for land revenue purposes in northern India, for which the Muslim lunar calendar <https://mail.google.com/EBchecked/topic/351352/lunar-calendar> was inconvenient. *Faṣlī* (“harvest”) is derived from the Arabic term for “division,” which in India was applied to the groupings of the seasons. The era dated from Akbar’s accession year, the Muslim year ah 963 (1555–56 ce). This was also the Hindu Samvat era year 1612. Akbar arbitrarily took 649 years from the Samvat year in order to make the Faṣlī year 963. Thereafter, the Faṣlī era proceeded according to the Samvat calendar. Hence you often see old Urdu and Muslim certificates with the FASLI year on them Kind Regards Kerry IF YOU FORWARD MY EMAILS AS A COURTESY PLEASE REMOVE ALL ATTACHED EMAIL ADDRESSES OR BLIND COPY (bcc). AND PLEASE DON'T SEND ME CHAIN MAIL On 15 August 2010 14:00, Chekkutty N.P <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, here is one more doubt: > > As I read the British records on India of early 19th century, I come across > references to Fusly year, ooten with reference to revenue collection. They > used this Fusly year in addition to the normal Gregarian calendar. > > Any idea what is this Fusly? Something like the financial year we have > today? > > N P Chekkutty/Malabar, India. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >