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o make way for “needy Brahmins of their own Tribe” who 
were denominated Patels, as Vans Agnew puts it. But not all 
for he only says of them that “‘ they are frequently strangers 
who have obtained the situation from interest” (Hewitt’s 
Report, para. 74). But their situation was in no way compar- 
able to that of the Yalugqdar of Haihaibansi days. The Patel, 
as his name would lead one to suppose, merely farmed the 
Revenue of the Taluq allotted to him by the Subedar. As 
“ment to Vithal Pandit for a specific sum which was 
‘‘annually in Nagpur; and who, in consideration of the rank 
*‘ of Subedar and his appointment, had likewise paid a consider- 
“able sum. Upon further enquiry as to the means by which the 
** pa th untry, who being always refractory and 
“never payi until much time has been spent 
“in warfare, the result is often precarious and the tribute 
“consequently trivi t to enquire what 
‘from the peasants. They informed me that it invariably 
*¢ consisted in taxing the ploughs and was always delivered in 
‘“‘the produce of the land; and gram, oil or cotton according 
‘to the species of cultivation for which the implements had 
‘been used. . This consequently occasions a vast accumulation 
headmen introduced. Soe 
91. By way of indicating the relations which in this part 
of the country existed between the Marathas and their tributaries 
lying too far afield to be classed as “‘ Khass Perganahs,”’ let 
