The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c22.38

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Contemporary descriptions of this reform are incomplete, but apparently the method adopted was to strike an average for each circle of the cash-demand rates which had been used within that circle during the ten years for which Todar Mal's schedules had been in operation. It is uncertain whether these averages were adjusted, or were used as they worked out; but the schedules, in which the rates are given in thousandths of a rupee, show that no attempt was made to secure round or convenient figures for the recurring calculations, and it is probable that no formal adjustments were made.