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privilege of manufacture without any payment. In tlie 

 Noi'thern Circars it was the policy of the Muhammadan Gov- 

 ernment to limit the manufacture of salt to its own havelly 

 or home farm lands, and to prohibit the making of salt in 

 Zemindaris. At Nowpada in 1787 the price of salt was Rs. 

 40 per garce of 120 maunds (1 maund=82flb.). The price 

 of salt inland was four and often eight times the price on 

 the coast varying according to the distance from the coast. 

 Before the Government monopoly came into force, the price of 

 salt at Calicut in 1800 was, according to Buchanan, 4 annas a 

 maund. In Mangalore, Bombay salt was sold for less than 

 4 annas and Goa salt less than 3 annas a maund. At Tai- 

 kulam (near Bangalore) the price of earth salt was 10 annas 



8 pies per maund, and of 

 Madras sea salt 2 rupees or 

 three times as much. After 

 the creation of the Govern- 

 ment monopoly the price at 

 the Government factories was 

 fixed * at 9J annas at first, 

 and it has been continually 

 enhanced till it amounts now 

 to 2 rupees 11 annas. Till 

 1882, the manufacture of salt 

 except on Government account 

 was prohibited. Between 1882 

 and 1886, the system of manu- 

 facture and sale of salt by 

 private individuals on payment 

 of an excise duty was substi- 

 tuted for the Government mono- 

 poly system throughout the Presidency, with the exception 

 of half a dozen places where the old system is still main- 

 tained. The growth of the salt revenue since the beginning 

 of the century will be seen from the figures given below : 



