Who imposed Jazia, after it was abolished by Akbar?
On his visit to Kashmir in 1589 Akbar gleaned accounts of stirring and blood boiling plight of the KPs where groaning, being crushed to pulp under the heavy weight of the vexatious extortion’s like the much deplored Jazia (Poll tax), Akbar repealed the black tax along with other taxes and fines imposed by the vicious Chak rulers. Akbar’s decree abolishing them brought a relief. Jehangir, Akbar’s son made a departure from the path of religious tolerance and non-interference in other religious affairs. Shah Jehan did not fall to keep up the iconoclastic heritage of his father. The fundamentalist emperor thew to winds the seemingly secular policy of his forefathers replacing it by one of religious harassment and persecution. He re-imposed Jazia (poll tax).
The the tax upon the non-Muslims levied in India (and in other Muslim countries) during the Muslim period; levied for the first time in India is Sind by Muhammad Bin Qasim (A.D.712-13); Akbar the Mughal Emperor,abolished in 1564; Aurangzeb reimposed it in 1679 which led to much discontent,corruption and disorder ; finally abolished by the Muhammad Shah in 1713.
