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³ The Jizeea was thirteen rupees per annum for every 2,000 rupees’ worth of property, possessed by Hindoos. Scott’s Deccan. [V. A. Smith (O.H.I. 438, 439 and footnote) gives a succinct account of the re-imposition of the jizya, which had been abolished by Akbar. The rates, according to Manucci (ii. 234), were: 13½ rupees on great merchants; 6¼ middle-class; poor 3½, per annum. See Elliot-Dowson, vii. 296; Tod, Annals, i. 426 f.; Yule, Hobson-Jobson (1903), 460. (Fryer’s Travels (Hakluyt), ed. Crooke, 1909, i. 275 n.)]