Yet the system of lattha was pursued by the regent before he commenced that of pateli, which has no slight analogy to the permanent system of Bengal,[[12]] and was attended with similar results,—distress, confiscation, and sale, to the utter exclusion of the hereditary principle, the very corner-stone of Hindu society.
[2]. [Lattha, literally a ‘measuring pole’; batāi, division of crop between landlord and tenant.]
[3]. [In the United Provinces the jarīb is 55 yards, and one square jarīb = 1 bīgha. The standard bīgha is five-eighths of an acre (Wilson, Glossary of Indian Terms, s.v.).]
[4]. [On the prospects of representative government, in Rājputāna see the statement of the Mahārāja of Bīkaner—The Times, 10th May 1917.]
[5]. [McCrindle, Megasthenes, 41.]
[6]. [Āl, Morinda citrifolia, from which a dye is made; kusumbha, safflower, Carthamus tinctorius, also a dye (Watt, Econ. Prod. 783 f., 276 ff.).]
[7]. [Moth, Phaseolus aconitifolius; mūng, P. mungo; til, Sesamum indicum.]
[8]. [Juār and bājra are millets; makkai is maize.]