The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.132

c18.132

The Superintendent of Agriculture, like a modern settlement officer, was required to assess land at rates varying according to the different methods of irrigation used. The normal share of the produce taken by the State as ‘land-revenue’, or crown rent, being one-fourth, the amount taken as water-rate was approximately equal, varying from one-fifth to one-third. Various other dues also were exacted, so that the cultivator of irrigated land could not retain as much as half of the produce of his fields.⁴