Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s14.4

c18.s14.4

¹¹ P. D., Vol. III, p. 255. I beg to differ from Rao Bahadur D. B. Parasnis who seems to think that in the above two cases the officers got as their salary 4 per cent. of the revenue of their districts. In his English summary of documents Nos. 407 and 409, Vol. I, 'Balaji Baji Rao Peshway,' he says—"the remuneration of the Kamavisdar of Bhopal was fixed at Rs. 4 per cent. of the revenue received." And again "The Mamlat of Bundelkhand was entrusted to one person, and Rs. 3,20,000 were received from him in advance on account of land revenue. His remuneration was fixed at Rs. 12,800 at Rs. 4 p. c. of the revenue." It is doubtful whether the word *rasad* in these two documents means revenue, it stands rather for the money that these officers had to advance at the time of their appointment, and a simple