Darughachi

A darugha from the Horde in a Rus' city.

Darughachi, which originally designated officials in the Mongol Empire in charge of taxes and administration in a certain province, is the plural form of the Mongolian word darugha.^[1] They were sometimes referred to as governors.^[2] The term corresponds to the Persian داروغه darougheh^[3] and the Turkic basqaq (also spelled baskak) and to tal u hua ch'i in Chinese.

In Russian sources, the darughachi were almost always referred to as baskaki. ^[4] They appear in the thirteenth-century soon after the Mongol Conquest but were withdrawn by 1328 and the Grand Prince of Vladimir (usually the Prince of Moscow) became the khan's tax collector and imperial son in law (kürgen), entrusted with gathering the dan' or tribute from the Rus' principalities for the Golden Horde.^[5]

In the 13th century, chiefs of Mongol darughas were stationed in Vladimir^[6] and Baghdad.^[7]

After 1921 the word darga (boss) (Khalkha pronouncation of darugha) replaced the aristocratic noyan as the term for officials in Mongolia.^[8]

See also

• Darugha

References

1. ^ Britnell, R.H. (1997). Pragmatic literacy, East and West, 1200-1330. The Boydell Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0851156958. http://books.google.fr/books?id=V_0xfZsdsn0C&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=darugha+darughachi+singular+plural&source=bl&ots=NZiXU00ltg&sig=kYWCFPO9y_6e7eA7ZZ9s9Rssje4&hl=fr&ei=XCf2TaSpLs-JhQfU3vzJBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved June 13, 2011. 
2. ^ Elizabeth Endicott-West, Mongolian Rule in China, Local Administration in the Yuan Dynasty (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989); Idem, " Imperial Governance in Yuan Times," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 46.2 (1986): 523-549.
3. ^ Dehkhoda Persian dictionary: داروغه . [ غ َ / غ ِ ] (ترکی - مغولی ، اِ) رئیس شبگردان . سرپاسبانان . داروغه که در زبان مغولی به معنی «رئیس » است یک اصطلاح عمومی اداری است [1]
4. ^ See for example the reference to one under the year 1269 in A. N. Nasonov, ed., Novgorodskaia Pervaia Letopis Starshego i Mladshego Izvodov (Moscow and Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1950), 319.
5. ^ Charles J. Halperin, Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987); Donald Ostrowski, Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
6. ^ Henry Hoyle Howorth-History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century. Part 2., p.128
7. ^ Judith G. Kolbas-The Mongols in Iran: Chingiz Khan to Uljaytu, 1220-1309, p.156
8. ^ C.P.Atwood-Encyclopedia of Mongolia, p.412