Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s23.27

c18.s23.27

The last sentence in the above document strikes the keynote of the Maratha policy of taxation. Every man was to be taxed in proportion to his resources; not a pie more, not a pie less; this was the instruction that the Peshwas gave to revenue officers and this was the prayer that the Rayat made when he applied for a revision of assessment.