[23]. [The normal revenue of the State at the present time is about 56, and the expenditure 42 lakhs of rupees (Erskine iii. A. 140 ff.).]
[24]. [The State now maintains two regiments of Imperial Service Lancers, 1210 men, the whole force, including local troops, being about 2700 (ibid. iii. A. 158 ff.).]
[25]. The maund is about seventy-five lbs. weight.
[26]. Kan, ‘corn.’
[27]. The average selling price at Jodhpur is two rupees the maund; four at Sambhar and Didwana, and five at Pachbhadra, Phalodi, and Nawa. Why the price at the capital is 50 per cent lower than elsewhere, I know not, even if this statement is correct. [On the Rājputāna salt trade see Watt, Comm. Prod. 968 f. The present State income is now about 15 lakhs of rupees per annum (Erskine iii. A. 150 f.).]
[28]. [Saccharum sara.]
[29]. [On the production of barilla (sajji khar) see Watt, op. cit. 112 ff.[112 ff.]]
We may recapitulate what the old archives state of the aggregate fiscal revenues in past times, amounting to nearly thirty lakhs of rupees. It would be hazardous to say to what extent the amount was overrated:
| 1. | Khalisa, or fiscal land, from 1484 towns and villages | Rs. 1,500,000 |
| 2. | Sair or imposts | 430,000 |
| 3. | Salt lakes | 715,000 |
| 4. | Hasil, or miscellaneous taxes; fluctuating and uncertain; not less than | 300,000 |
| Total | 2,945,000 | |
| Feudal and ministerial estates | 5,000,000 | |
| Grand Total | 7,945,000 |
Thus the united fiscal and feudal revenues of Marwar are said to have amounted almost to eighty lakhs of rupees (£800,000). If they ever did reach this sum [175], which may be doubted, we do not err in affirming that they would not be overrated at half that amount. Large fortunes are said to centre in the families of the ex-ministers, especially the Singhi family, reported to be immensely rich. Their wealth is deposited in foreign capitals. But much bullion is lost to the currency of these countries by the