Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c7.t2.49

c7.t2.49

With regard to estimating the rate of taxes on property we are at a disadvantage for two reasons. Firstly we have only a few inscriptions which give us an idea about them, and secondly even those few are found scattered in the different parts of the empire. We do not thus know for instance if the rate of a particular tax levied on a house in a certain part of the empire was the same as the rate for a similar house in another part of the empire. Anyway the following rates may be noted:—