maunds

Hume once demolished one of these vulturine nurseries and found that it weighed over eight maunds, that is to say about six hundredweight.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India

"Quemander, or caimander, to beg; or goe a begging; to beg from doore to doore" (Cotgrave), but it may mean a maker of "maunds," i.e. baskets.

The Romance of Names

The system of weight used by ordinary consumers in retail settings, in at least Jalalabad and Laghman, worked with 1 charak equal to 16 khurds, 4 charaks equal to 1 seer or dhari, 8 seers equal to 1 maund, 10 maunds equal to 1 kharwar.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

In the official tabrizi state weight scheme 2.5 chittacks equaled 1 maund and 100 maunds equaled one kharwar.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

They valued their export business at 30,000 maunds per year which, at 95 pounds to a maund, comes to two million seven hundred thousand pounds.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

One official Kabuli maund equaled 4 seers and 14.5 chittacks British Indian standard weight, and a tabrizi kharwar equaled 12 maunds, 10 seers, and 10 chittacks British Indian standard weight. back

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

They arose in a context that was unfavorable to the British, namely, the failed transport of twenty thousand maunds of grain from Qandahar to the Ghazni vicinity where Shuja was bunkered.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

British officials indicated that the ability of the Lohanis to transfer thirty thousand maunds of grain from Dera Ismail Khan to Kabul depended on whether the Ghalzis decided to support Shuja. 95 And although the Ghalzis generally did not support Shuja or his colonial patrons during the first British invasion and occupation, it was reported that Sarwar Khan successfully traversed the Ghalzi impasse between Qandahar and Kabul.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

One ordinary Kabuli seer equaled 7 seers 13.5 chittacks British Indian standard weight, and therefore one ordinary Kabuli kharwar equaled 15 maunds 27 seers and 8 chittacks British Indian standard weight.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

It is not that food is considered in the mass, as so many kilos of this or so many maunds of that; no, the centre of attention is something like the quality of pizza in particular places – the sourness of this joint, the sweetness of the other one.

Food