Administrative System of the Marathas c27.s3.13

c27.s3.13

Rasikdas is further enjoined to make local enquiry through his *amils* as to the condition of the cultivation and to take a statistics of cultivators and ploughs, encourage the cultivator to increase the sowing and the extent of cultivation and to improve the quality of the produce, to make the *amils* work hard in order to induce the runaway peasants to return, to gather cultivators from all sides by offering them various inducements and to devise means for the reclamation of waste lands.⁴ The outstanding arrears were to be realised by instalments "according to the condition of the ryots."⁵ The exaction of prohibited *abwabs* was to be checked and prevented.⁶ And finally the papers of the records were to be gathered at the right time.⁷