The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 4John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... Maratha armies had not set foot in the Carnatic for over a generation , the Peshwa had a standing pretext for intervention whenever it suited Maratha policy . This was the claim to a quarter of the revenues known as chauth . In 1740 ...
... Maratha armies had not set foot in the Carnatic for over a generation , the Peshwa had a standing pretext for intervention whenever it suited Maratha policy . This was the claim to a quarter of the revenues known as chauth . In 1740 ...
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... MARATHA ADMINISTRATION THE Maratha administrative system , in the eighteenth century and the opening years of the nineteenth , may be described as a compound of the principles embodied in ancient works on Hindu polity , such as the ...
... MARATHA ADMINISTRATION THE Maratha administrative system , in the eighteenth century and the opening years of the nineteenth , may be described as a compound of the principles embodied in ancient works on Hindu polity , such as the ...
Page 398
... Maratha state can be given . Lord Valentia ( 1802-6 ) calculated the Peshwa's revenue at rather more than 7,000,000 rupees ; while J. Grant , writing in 1798 , estimated the total revenue of the Maratha empire at six crores , and the ...
... Maratha state can be given . Lord Valentia ( 1802-6 ) calculated the Peshwa's revenue at rather more than 7,000,000 rupees ; while J. Grant , writing in 1798 , estimated the total revenue of the Maratha empire at six crores , and the ...
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