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Mughal Administration c9.s8.43

Mughal Administration c9.s8.43

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c9.s8.43

43 and 44. Fee on a low-caste Hindu marrying a Hindu widow (*dharicha*) and having a child by her. [I am inclined to think that there was no taxation of the birth of children in general, though some extortionate zamindars are even now known to practise it.]