Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c52.s3.5

v4.c52.s3.5

The next question was how to pay him this sum. Mahādji Sindhiā suggested an easy method: In the nine years since 1783 he had won territories in Northern India with a nominal rent-roll of one krore or a krore and a half of rupees. In this territory the revenue was shared and collected by Sindhia, Holkar and the Peshwā (the last through the agency of Ali Bahādur, Vinchurkar, Pawār, &c.) in certain fixed proportions. Mahādji did not demand the repayment of his admitted loan of five krores now in cash, but proposed that the North Indian territories belonging to the Peshwā's share should be placed in his (i.e., Mahādji's) charge and he would gradually recover the total amount from their annual surplus.