Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c55.s10.12

v4.c55.s10.12

∗ In De Boigne's corps a single infantry battalion (416 rank and file), cost Rs. 40,800 a year in salary only, excluding the pay of the two European commanders and the cost of the pieces of artillery attached to each battalion. Add to the amount the pay and allowances of an Indian commandant, and a battalion could not have cost G. Thomas less than Rs. 43,200 a year. Thus, three battalions and his artillery would have swallowed up two lakhs of Rupees, which was probably the utmost he ever actually realised from his Hariānā *jāgir*, with a rent roll of Rs. 2,86,000 on paper but never collected peacefully.