The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.83

v4.c23.s3.83

Indeed Thalun must rank as one of the best kings. The wars of his predecessors left the country bloodless for a century. He kept the peace and reorganised the administration. He may not have created, but at least he revived the old village and district administration which had been shattered; and he placed it on record in the great revenue inquest of 1638, the first in Burmese history. None of the record has been found, but probably it resembled Bodawpaya’s 1784 inquest¹ and consisted of the sworn statements of every village headman throughout the country as to the number of people in his village, the area of cultivated land, the crops grown, the revenue paid, etc.