Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s24.21

c18.s24.21

Before concluding this chapter we shall take a short notice of the Batai system here. As we have seen, the Maratha peasant and the Maratha government preferred a fixed rent either in cash or in kind. Their collection was always flexible, as "large remissions were made, whenever the seasons were found to be unfavourable. Under the old revenue system, cultivated lands alone paid revenue; and in bad years the revenue fell, and remissions had to be constantly made in the State accounts."³⁹