History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c43.15

v2.c43.15

"A General Account of the Systems which have prevailed at different times.—Under the Haihaya-vansi Rajahs the Feudal principles of their rule precluded anything in the nature of a System of Revenue. The Rajahs and the members of his family retained no more lands under their own management than were necessary for their comfort and dignity, the rest were assigned to their chiefs, who on their requisition, supplied them with whatever they required, with money according to their wants, and in war with quotas of troops proportioned to the lands they held. These Petty Lords seem, on their part, to have followed the same system, retaining but small tracts of land in their own hands and distributing the remainder amongst their servants who were at the same time soldiers and cultivators. The judicial authority in important cases they personally exercised; but in all inferior and common occasions they left the chief executive authority in revenue as well as other matters to the head of each Talook or