Revenues.

Rupees.
Lachhman Singh, of Sikar, including Khandela800,000
Abhai Singh, of Khetri, including Kotputli, given by Lord Lake600,000
Shyam Singh, of Baswa, including his brother Ranjit’s share of 40,000 (whom he killed)190,000
Gyan Singh, of Nawalgarh, including Mandao, each fifty villages70,000
Lachhman Singh, Mendsar, the chief sub-infeudation of Nawalgarh30,000
Tain and its lands, divided amongst the twenty-seven great-grandsons of Zorawar Singh, eldest son of Sadhu100,000
Udaipurvati100,000
Manoharpur[[25]]30,000
Larkhanis100,000
Harramjis40,000
Girdharpotas40,000
Smaller estates200,000
2,300,000
[429.]

The tribute established by Jaipur is as follows:—

Rupees.
Sadhanis200,000
Fatehpur64,000
Udaipur and Babhai22,000
Kasli4,000
350,000

Thus, supposing the revenues, as stated, at twenty-three lakhs, to be near the truth, and the tribute at three and a half, it would be an assessment of one-seventh of the whole, which is a fair proportion, and a measure of justice which the British Government would do well to imitate.


[1]. Dhūs is an expedient to hasten the compliance of a demand from a dependent. A party of horse proceeds to the township, and are commanded to receive so much per day till the exaction is complied with. If the dhūs is refused, it is considered tantamount to an appeal to arms. [Dhūsnā means ‘to butt like an ox,’ hence ‘to coerce.’]

[2]. Franklin, in his Life of George Thomas, describes this battle circumstantially; but makes it appear an affair of the Jaipur court, with Thomas and the Mahrattas, in which the Shaikhawats are not mentioned. Thomas gives the Rajput chivalry full praise for their gallant bearing.—Memoir of George Thomas, p. 109. [The battle was fought early in 1799 at Fatehpur, about 145 miles N.W. of Jaipur city (Compton, European Military Adventurers, 146 ff.).]

[3]. [Men clad in armour (Irvine, Army of the Indian Moghuls, 164).]

[4]. [See Vol. II. p. [863].]