A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.183

v1.c7.183

The institution of Deshmookh, however, on that footing, if not prior to the rise of the Bahminee dynasty, is at least coeval with it in Maharashtra ; but as a Hindoo state succeeded that of the Mahomedans, the Deshmookhs never had the assurance to attempt to impose upon their own nation, by pretending to rights such as were so precipitately granted to the same class of people by the British government in Bengal, under the permanent revenue settlement, which is aptly named the Zumeendaree system, to distinguish it from all other schemes or systems ever known in India.