A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.62

v1.c17.62

Sumbhajee was prodigal in his expenses, and as he considered his father’s treasure inexhaustible, even the favourite minister was unwilling to rouse his dangerous temper by touching on that theme. No revenue was received from the Carnatic after the death of Rugonath Punt; the districts in that quarter maintained themselves, but as loss rather than advantage was now the result of most of the expeditions, by which in the time of Sivajee so much was amassed, Kuloosha conceived he had discovered an easy mode of replenishing the treasury by raising the land-rent, through the addition of various assessments; but when he came to collect the revenue, he found that the receipts were as much diminished from what they had been in the time of Sivajee as the assessments were nominally increased.