Administrative System of the Marathas c11.s1.37

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29. *Dasrapati*—Is it a cess levied on the occasion of Dasra? We know that under the Peshwa regime the Patil received some presents in kind, *e.g.*, a goat on the Dasra day. Sleeman noticed a somewhat similar practice in Central India. "In the first place, they (Thanadars) levy a fee of one rupee from every village at the festival of the Holi in February, another at that of the Dasehra in October," *Rambles and Recollections*, Vol. II, p. 217. The Ramoshi, Sarnaik also was entitled to the present of a goat from the neighbouring villages on the Dasra day. See Mackintosh, *Origin and present condition of the Tribe of Ramoossies*, p. 58.