Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s21.3

c18.s21.3

The assessment may appear quite impartial on the face of it if we compare it with our table of money-rent already quoted, but that it was an undue favour can be proved beyond doubt by a document of the time of Balaji Baji Rao. It shows how the Brahmans of Tarf Tungartan, who used to pay at the rate of ten maunds of rice per bigha when the Tarf was under the Angria, got their rent in kind converted into a cash payment of Rs. 5-2-3 per bigha. Even at the most liberal calculation they could not expect such a low assessment if the market price of the grains had been taken into consideration.