A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.178
A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.178
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v1.c17.178
The Moghul officers who had Jagheer assignments in the Deccan soon found that they could raise very little revenue; their corruption was increased by poverty, and the offenders who had, in the first instance, plundered their districts by purchasing the connivance of the Foujdars, bribed the Jagheerdars at court with a part of the pillage.