Note 29 — CHAPTER 1
Reading edition
[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