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POONAH. 
thirty-six are retained for the payment of the subsidiary force, and 
his Highness receives the other eight. The latter was originally 
ceded to the British, and, though given up on receiving Bundelcund, 
the system of collection had been so far improved, that his Highness 
now obtains from it about twenty-one lac. The provinces nearer to 
the seat of government were of course more productive ; but even 
these were liable to all the peculations which naturally existed under 
a weak government, and were too frequently devastated by the hos- 
tile presence of the contending chieftains, or by the more amicable, 
but not much less dreadful, annual assemblage of undisciplined 
cavalry at the Dusserah. These evils are put an end to by the Bri- 
tish victories; and it seems probable that the territories above the 
Gauts will be rendered secure from any future hostile incursions, 
by Colonel Wallace's conquest of the hill forts that belong to Holcar, 
and which command the passes between the two countries. The 
presence of a subsidiary force ready to enforce obedience, has also 
operated in causing the payments to be regularly made. 
His Highness's gross revenue may be fairly estimated as follows : 
Rupees. 
/Ahmood - 2,00,000 
InGuzerat - - - <Jumbooseer - 5,00,000 
CDuboy - - 1,25,000 
Cokan - - 9,00,000 
Sevendroog, kc. 2,00,000 
, ' ^ J... rJuneer - - 10,00,000 
Above the Gauts, N. and W. \c< 
ofPoonah - - jSungumnere 10,00,000 
CAhmednuggur 4,00,000 
A , 1 , 1 I rSavanore - - 8,72,838 
Added by the treaty of Se- ^^ankapore . 7,51,278 
rmsapatam, 1792 - 
^ ^ CDarwar - - 4,15,608 
Bundelcund - 8,00,000 
R. 71.64 724 
