A History of the Mahrattas v1.c10.33

v1.c10.33

The grand innovation occasioned by the Moghul conquests in Maharashtra, under Shah Jehan, was the introduction of the revenue system of Todur Mull, whose name must be familiar to the generality of oriental readers as an eminent Hindoo statesman, who, by his financial arrangements and his regulations in the mint department during the reign of Akber, had acquired a character of no inconsiderable celebrity.