In'Am

   Any payment in the Delhi sultanate, and also in the successor states, not linked to military obligation, often in the form of a revenue-free grant, was called in'am. Under the Lodi dynasty, Hindu digni-taries were remunerated for their piety and cooperation with the ad-ministration through in'am grants. In'am grants, like other similar grants, were ordinarily neither transferable nor resumable, but the sultan had a right to cancel them. Succession to a grant was to be reg-ulated by the order of the sultan rather than the rules of shariah.