History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c36.s5.10

v3.c36.s5.10

† The gross revenue collected from the Shahabad district seventy years afterwards was seven lakhs. (*Chahar Gulshan*, 65 a.) Palamau is incomparably less fertile and smaller in cultivable area. Pratap's heritage had been reduced by the cession of a productive tract in the N. E. corner to the Mughals (in 1643), and much of his territory was held on service tenure, yielding no revenue in cash or grain. Under the British, the current demand of land revenue (1905) is only Rs. 1,09,000. (*Gaz.* 139). But in 1643 the gross revenue of Palamau, to be collected by the Rajah, was assessed by the Mughals at 2½ lakhs, *i.e.*, the Rajah had to pay nearly half his income to the paramount Power and could not have possibly maintained himself and his retainers—much less kept state, on the balance, unless the standard assessment was collected every year without fail, which was never the case in such a primitive and sterile country, subject to the calamities of the seasons.