Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: The Timariots, Governors and 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 tune to render it fruitful? We may be deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions would benefit neither ourselves nor our children. Let us draw from the soil all the money we can, though the peasant should starve or abscond and we should leave it, when commanded to quit, a dreary wilderness.1. Which of the following chronicles of Shahjahan's reign mentions that the practice of ijara became very common during Shahjahan's reign and that it was one of the causes of the ruin of the peasantry?

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