Mughal Administration c9.s8.65

c9.s8.65

*Malba*—Village expenses met by public assessment. Its principal items in the N. W. Provinces are—feeding the members of the community when absent on public duty, or those of other villages on a visit, feeding religious mendicants, payments to subordinate police and revenue officers, remuneration to individuals for losses incurred in supplying cattle and carts for public service, fines imposed for plundered property when traced within the boundary of a village, presents to dancers singers jugglers and the like for amusing the inhabitants, expenses of religious worship and occasional festivals, expenses of Panchayets assembled on the business of the village, funeral expenses of a headman or any respectable member, &c. The total often reached 12 p. c. of the land revenue. [Wilson, 324.]