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Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c48.2

Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c48.2

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c48.2

§ 352. To recapitulate the position of the Hindu king. The king had his civil list defined which was called his 'salary' and which had to be fixed with reference to the income of the State and the position of the Monarch and Country.¹ The whole revenue was not his salary. Salaries of the Queen and junior queens, of Queen Dowager and Princes and other members of the royal family were also fixed.