Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Author:James Tod [Tod, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Expenses.

Establishments—namely, feeding cattle and servants, tear and wear of gear, and clearing the fields—one-eighth of the gross amount,[7] or 400,000

Seed 600,000

Replacing 4000 oxen annually, at 20s.[8] 80,000

Extras 20,000

1,100,000

We do not presume to give this, or even the gross amount, as more than an approximation to the truth; but the regent himself has mentioned that in one year the casualties in oxen amounted to five thousand! We have allowed one-fourth, for an ox will work well seven years, if taken care of. Thus, on the lowest scale, supposing the necessities of the government required the grain to be sold in the year it was raised, twenty lakhs will be the net profit of the regent’s farms. But he has abundant resources without being forced into the market before the favourable moment; until when, the produce is hoarded up in subterranean granaries. Everything in these regions is simple, yet efficient: we will describe the grain-pits.

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