A History of Assam c21.17

c21.17

The rates differed slightly in other districts, and the change from the old manner of assessment to the new took much longer to effect in some parts than it did in others. In the north of Darrang the indigenous *khelwāri* system lingered on until 1841, when a plough tax of three rupees was levied; a regular land assessment was first introduced there in 1843.