Storia do Mogor 213.4

213.4

This table brings into relief the great exaggeration of Manucci's figures, which are about £5,000,000 in excess of the assumed standard land revenue demand of seven years later than his time ; while the actual demand for that later year was £16,000,000, and the actual collections £19,000,000 to £21,000,000, less than his figures. It must also be remembered that his total does not include the province of Audh, of which the standard assessment in Jag Jivan Das's table is over 80 lakhs of rupees— say, £800,000. Of what value, then, can elaborate comparisons of the Mogul revenue with present-day taxation be worth when founded on such inflated statements ? had remitted it for Mahomedans, he has not failed all the same to take two and a half per cent, [from them]. He makes those whom he had exempted pay the rents and customs duty. He also draws large sums from the bathings which the Hindus perform at various points in the empire. There is also another source of revenue, the diamond mines in the kingdom of Gulkandah, over and above the largest and the best of the stones. Any which weigh above three-eighths of an ounce belong to the Crown. The seaports also yield him a large revenue; among them are those of Sindl, Bharoch, Surat, and Kambaya. Surat alone brings him in usually thirty lakhs, besides the eleven lakhs derived from the profit on new coin struck there.