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quent remarks when he goes on to state that Aliverdi Khan ceded to the 

 Court of Nagpore, country assessed with an old standard revenue of Ru- 

 pees 25,73,533 and that in 17G8-9 the bad management of the Marhattas 

 had reduced the Jamma to 21,20,415 Rupees. It should be written 15,04,799, 

 as the amount of G,15,616 was quite a nominal entry. One half of this 

 rated assessment, or about three lacs, was added to the Marhatta Jamma- 

 bandi, according to Mr. Grant, on the final dismemberment of the do- 

 minions of the Khurda Rajas under Raja Bir Kissore Deo. 



The registered assessments of the Moguls, I believe to be much higher than 

 the province ever really paid, but there seems little prospect of this discre- 

 pance between the entries and actual collections of the imperial govern- 

 ment (which has been noticed in other parts of the country also) receiving 

 a satisfactory explanation. In most revenue accounts, and especially in 

 all the bills of sale of portions of a Talukdari or Moqeddemi authen- 

 ticated by the signature of the Sudder Canungo, which are now forth- 

 coming, two Jammas are always specified. First, the Tankhah Raqmi, 

 which is the name given to Toral Mali's assessment, and is always very 

 high, being in fact the registered assessment above noticed, computed in 

 Rupees. 2nd. The Jamma Kamal which falls far below the other, and is spe- 

 cified in couris, the common currency of the district. The best informed 

 natives declare that the Tankhah Raqmi was an imaginary over-rated 

 valuation, at which the lands were formerly made over in Jageer or as- 

 signment to the Officers of the Mogul government. The word" Tankhah" 

 (not Takeh or Tanka) certainly ordinarily means assignment, and Mr. J. 

 Grant, a great authority on questions of Indian. Finance, appears so to 

 have understood it in the remark above quoted, " Moqurreri Tunkhah 

 " Ruqmi or enrolled standard of assignment, being always for the most 

 " part. bestowed in Jageer," &c. &c. There is a passage likewise in the 

 Ayin Acberi which strongly confirms the above view of the meaning of the 

 terms. The author says, "When Asif Khan was Vizier, the Jummaofthe 

 country was Raqmi or computed, and he went on increasing the Tankhahs 

 just as he thought fit, " Deran Hingam ki khajeh Abdul majid Ba Vi- 



