Abstract
This article deals with information on taxes and revenues contained mainly in an English East India Company document recorded in 1773 in the Surat Factory Records, just after the Company conquered Broach territory from the Nawab of Broach. It is as contemporary a record as the Mirat-i-Ahmadi, about Mughal revenue and taxation matters, with many details of the rates and actual amounts collected of taxes at the microlevels. It can serve as a good source for scholars for crosschecking, grading and analysis. The article shows the large variety of taxes and indicates their potentially oppressive effects.
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