[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of the Mahrattas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826) › v1.c19.134 # A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.134 A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.134 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.134) Of the seventy-five per cent. which remained to the Moghuls, one-third or twenty-five per cent. was received, according to established usage, by the Foujdar, and the balance was collected, sometimes for the imperial exchequer, but generally on account of some Jagheerdar, to whom, as I have already mentioned in a former chapter, the Moghul conquests in the Deccan were assigned for the support of troops. This general mode of appropriating the revenue, accounts for the seizures, resumptions, and cessions of territory, under the name of Jagheer, which was taken, retaken, and interchanged, during the later wars in the Deccan, between the Nizam and the Peishwa. It likewise explains the practice, which prevailed in many villages, even up to the period of the late conquests in Maharashtra by the British Government, of bringing fifty per cent. of the net revenue to account under the head of Jagheer, for which the Koolkurnees, in less than a century, could assign no reason except the custom of their forefathers. - [Previous: v1.c19.133](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.133) - [Next: v1.c19.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.135) - [Up: v1.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.134) · Pramāṇa