Mughal Administration c9.s6.10

c9.s6.10

They were 'village revenue-officers who recorded all circumstances within their sphere which concerned landed property and the realisation of the revenue, keeping registers of the value, tenure, extent, and transfers of lands, assisting in the measurement and survey of the lands, reporting deaths and successions of revenue-payers, and explaining, when required, local practices and public regulations ; they were paid by rent-free lands and various allowances and perquisites." (Wilson, 260.)