The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c8.s13.23

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Import duty was another source of state revenue. Fuel, vegetables, flowers, milk-products, &c., had to pay a duty when they were imported, whether into a village or into a town. The same must have been the case with more important articles like cloth, grain, and oil, though they are not especially mentioned in our records. Whether there were excise duties on the manufacture of cloth and wines we do not know.