Fasli calendar
Fasli calendar or Fasli era is a harvest-based calendar system that was used across South Asia, but today is mainly used in Deccan. It was the official calendar of Hyderabad Deccan.
The Deccani Fasli calendar begins in October, marking the first of Azur.
Fasli year means the period of 12 months from July to June. Adding 590 to Fasli year comes to Gregorian calendar, corresponding Gregorian year for Fasli year 1410 was from July 2000 – June 2001.
Formation
The calendar formation year is considered as 963 Hijra in the Islamic calendar. From that year onward, the Fasli calendar has been a solar year. The name and number of the Days and the Months are the same as Islamic calendar. The first day of the year is 7 or 8 June.The Fasli calendar dated from the accession year of Akbar. Thus the beginning of the Fasli era is equal to below calendars.
History
Fasli Calendar is a chronological system introduced by the Mughal emperor Akbar basically for land revenue and records purposes in northern India, The differences in records dates due to the Muslim lunar calendar because of moon sighting have led him to introduce an alternate calendar which follows simultaneously with Islamic Lunar calendar and Hindu Samavat solar Calendar. Which can give the fixed dating system.Akbar insistence to equalize the Fasli calendar according to Islamic calendar accordingly with Hindu calendar, thus he took 649 years from the Hindu calendar year to make the Fasli year 963. Since then, the Fasli calendar proceeded according to the Hindu calendar.