Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s24.43

c18.s24.43

2. *Census*: Sometimes, when the normal means of the government proved inadequate for meeting the financial pressure, the government levied a *Jasti Patti* or *Karja Patti* on all land-holders, Inamdars included, and the tax generally amounted to a year's income. Some of the above-mentioned levies were farmed and some of them were paid in kind. But as we have seen in relation to the assessment and collection of land revenue, the Peshwa's government relied much on inspection and what may be regarded as statistical reports. Thus we find that an officer was sent to take a census of the houses, and she-buffaloes, in Pargana Ghosala in the year 1741-42, and papers of the preceding year's census were given to him.²