Administrative System of the Marathas c27.s7.18

c27.s7.18

Khafi Khan has mentioned, among other taxes, cesses and abwabs, prohibited by Aurangzib, "the fourth part of debts recovered by the help of Magistrates from creditors." We have seen in Book II, how creditors had to pay a fee amounting to twenty-five per cent. of the money recovered from debtors with state help under the Peshwa regime. Customs, specially when favourable to the powerful, die hard indeed!