Muntakhab al-lubab 174.5

174.5

It was also settled that, in addition to the fourth share which they were to get from the receipts of the jágírdárs, they were to receive from the raiyats ten per cent. as sar-deshmukhí. Altogether they were to receive thirty-five per cent. upon the total collections, (and also) upon the abwábs called faujdárí, shikkdárí, ziyáfat, and other charges, as shown in the gross account of the collections. According to this account they were to receive nearly half the total revenue recorded in the Government rent-roll, and (the collections) were thus shared by the domineering collectors of Rája Sáhú. This arrangement, by which they were to collect all taxes, fell very hard upon the raiyats, and the government officers and jágírdárs; for in every district there were two collectors—one called the kamáïshdár, the other the gumáshta of the sar-deshmukhí. On the roll of the collections the signature of the sarrishtadár of the sar-deshmukhí was first placed, and what was required by the rules on that account was to be taken separately. The position and life of the officers of Government and of the jágírdárs became (irksome). Besides these, there were two separate collectors of the ráhdárí (road duties) in each district.