A History of Agriculture in India v2.c86.s3.4

v2.c86.s3.4

'Through Balaji Bishwanath and Jamnaji, Brahmans, and most intelligent generals of Raja Sahu, a proposal of peace was made on these terms. There was to be paid to the officers of Faja Sahu a fourth part of what the amins, kroris, and shikkdars collected as land revenue, and as sair from the government lands and from the jagirdars. It was also settled that, in addition to the fourth share which they were to get from the receipts of the jagirdars, they were to receive from the raiyats ten per cent as sar-deshmukhi. Altogether they were to receive thirty-five per cent, upon the total collections, and also upon the cesses (abwabs) called faujdari, shikkdari, ziyafat, and other charges, as shown in the gross account of the collections. According to this account they were to receive nearly half the total revenue recorded in the Government rent-roll, and the collections were thus shared by the domineering collectors of Raja Sahu. This arrangement, by which they were to collect all taxes, fell very hard upon the raiyats, and the government officers and jagirdars; for in every district there were two collectors: one called the kamaishdar, the other the gumashta of the sar-deshmukhi. On the roll of the collections the signature of the sarrishtadar of the sar-deshmukhi was first placed, and what was required by the rules on that account was to be taken separately. The position and life of the officers of Government and of the jagirdars became irksome.