Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s26.38

c18.s26.38

Thus in a letter addressed to the Kamavisdars of Zakat, Prants Poona and Junnar 1763-64, we find that (1) "rice and salt and groceries brought from the Konkan were to pass free of Zakat. (2) Bhusara grains (pulses) were always exempted from Zakat. (3) Cultivators carrying grain and salt from Poona were to be exempted from Zakat as their property had been recently lost owing to war. (4) No fee was to be levied on cultivators purchasing bullocks and buffaloes in Prant Poona as they had been deprived of their cattle during the disturbance this year; traders, however, should pay the usual duty."⁸⁷