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∗ The Marātha agent in Delhi reported that a trooper cost one Rupee a day in Delhi (S.P.D. xxi. 55, Aiti Patr. ii. 89.) Ghaziuddin reduced the pay of his troopers to Rs. 30 a month in 1751. The pay of the Ruhela soldiers was, as a matter of grace to a bankrupt State and a temporary concession, fixed at 12 annas per trooper and 4 annas per infantryman in Sep. 1753. [TAh. 67 a.] The normal monthly salary of the cavalry was Rs. 50 each.