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the several tenures; the non-performance of these duties in- 
volved the forfeiture of their rights; but independently of such 
forfeiture, all grants whatever (unless specified to the contrary) 
were resumable by the sovereign or other grantee, Grants 
for religious purposes were rarely recalled; but for other ob- 
jects they were frequently abrogated, particularly Jagheer, 
Surinam, and Hukdar grants. To such an extent did this 
exist under the Peshwa’s government, that the Hon. M. El- 
phinstone, in his report as commissioner, enumerates as an 
item of revenue, Wuttun Zubtee, or sequestered lands of Zu- 
mundars, which yielded annually 50,000 rupees. 
Revenue. 
A few figures perspicuously arranged, are more efficacious in 
affording just impressions of the resources of a country, their 
ramifications, pressure, and availability, than the most laboured 
verbal details. In 1827—28 the assessments in the four col- 
lectorates of Dukhun amounted to 8,435,244 rupees, 3 qr.79 reas, 
being a diminution of 539,399 rupees, 2 qr. 80 reas in the re- 
venue of Fuslee 1231, a.p. 1822, as stated in Mr. Chaplin’s 
report; from this sum also were to be deducted the remissions 
of 415,000 rupees, 1 qr. 25 reas in the Ahmednuggur, and 
416,320 rupees, 3 qr. in the Poona collectorate in 1827—8, 
amounting to a total diminution of 1,360,725 rupees, 3 qr. 
05 reas, or 15°16 decl. per cent. of the revenue of 1822. 
The revenue of 1827—28 in its constituents is shown in the 
following table :— 
; : Fuslee 1237.—Revenue, A,D, 1827—28. 
| Denomination 2 
of Revenue. 
Poona Nuggur Dharwar Khandesh 
Collectorate. Collectorate. Collectorate, Collectorate. 
ai rupees, qr. reas.| rupees. qr. reas,| rupees. qr. reas.| rupees. qr. reas, 
3 Land revenue 1,516,823 ... 37 {1,815,837 ... ... |1,945,8238 2 08 |1,664,904 3 32 
|Sahyer* Soar 231,262 1 ... 59,007 3 78 | 334,668... 85 | 181,710 3 ... 
 |Customs ...... 241,114 1 25 | 159,150... ... | 141,524 2 46] 155,560 3 
q Selih bess rake LARARR Si desth ok ee acfneen cl, Bae Gs S68 
Mitoial ......... 1,992,000 2 62 |2,033,994 3 78 (2,421,516 1 89 |1,987733.... ... 
a Grand Total 8,435,244 rupees, 3 qr. 79 reas. 
* Sahyer is the revenue raised from shops, markets, liquors, &c. Sahyer is 
a “market” in Sanscrit. 
