Mughal Administration c9.s8.28

c9.s8.28

28. Tax for grazing bullocks taken from the *banjāras* (wandering grain-sellers) and other people. *Mirāt*, i. 260, explains it thus, "The collectors take one *tanka* under the name of *gāu-charāi* every time that bullocks of carts and pack-oxen are brought into the city and fed on purchased grass and stalks of millets (*karbi*)." The same authority refers (p. 263) to another practice,—"In the city of Patan, the officials by violence exact four *Murādi tankas* every year per head of sheep, eight annas per cow and one Rupee per buffalo, even though they may not be grazing at large (*sāima*) and their price is below the *nisāb* (the canonical minimum value for taxation)."