[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.c19.159 # A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.159 A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.159 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.159) ¹ \[Bālājī Visvanāth claimed that those levies (\*chauth\* and \*sardesh-mukhī\*) should be calculated on the revenue as fixed either by Todar Mall in Akbar’s or by Malik Ambar in Shāh Jahān’s time, well knowing that no such amount of revenue could be raised from a ruined country. He thus secured the advantage of always keeping a bill for arrears in hand. He artfully arranged that several Marāthā chiefs should share the collections from a single district, in that way purposely introducing complications into the accounts, and increasing the power of his Brahman caste-fellows, who alone had the knowledge and intelligence equal to dealing with such accounts. Nobody except the Brahmans rightly knew what was due or to whom it was due. (O.H.I., pp. 457–8.)\] - [Previous: v1.c19.158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.158) - [Next: v1.c20.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c20.1) - [Up: v1.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.159) · Pramāṇa