[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c18.134 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.134 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.134 - **Language:** English ### [c18.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.134) All subjects were further required to pay occasional ‘benevolences’ on special occasions, levied at the king’s discretion. The suggestions concerning the methods by which a necessitous monarch might extort money are of more than Machiavellian wickedness. The history of Kashmir supplies painful illustrations of the application of the author's prescriptions. One way or another the Crown took all it could get. - [Previous: c18.133](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.133) - [Next: c18.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.135) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c18.134) · Pramāṇa