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The Timariots Governors and the Revenue Contractors, on their part reason in this manner: "Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness in our minds and why should we expend our money and time to render it fruitful? We may be deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions would benefit neither ourselves nor our children." This statement was made by

  • A.Monserrate
  • B.Tavernier
  • C.Manrique
  • D.Bernier

Answer: D

It was Bernier.

Francois Bernier, physician at the Mughal court from 1658 to 1670, argued in Travels in the Mogul Empire that the absence of private property in land destroyed any incentive to improve it - the passage that later fed European theories of oriental despotism.

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