Mughal Administration c9.s5.7

c9.s5.7

The actual revenue collector was the krori, so styled because he was placed in charge of a tract theoretically expected to yield a revenue of one kror of dām, i.e., 2½ lakhs of Rupees. The arrangement was Akbar's (Ain, i. 13.) But the title of krori was continued in later times irrespective of the amount of revenue to be collected by this officer. It latterly meant simply 'a collector of State dues', and we have a class of kroris of ganj, i.e., collectors of markets.