Mughal Administration c9.s8.34

c9.s8.34

34. Presents (*peshkash*) taken by newly arrived officials from the grain-dealers and other [trades-] people, in some places from the banjaras. Mirat, i. 261, adds, "Faujdars and kroris take from the men of the parganahs on the banks of the Sabarmati and Watrak rivers, by force what they call *kachari*, amounting to Rs. 10 to 15." And again, "If a resident of Ahmadabad wants to cut a tree in his ancestral house that is doing harm to his building the officials of the place will not allow him to cut it down or even any branch of it, unless he pays them something." (*Ibid* 260.)