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clear that, ot the three assessment circles which are recorded, 
only one (Raisin-Chanderi) had a workable schedule of 
rates. The second circle, that of Mando, had no rates or 
any spring crops except melons, while of the autumn crops 
rates are entered only for sugarcane, cotton, henna, and 
waternuts, a ludicrously inadequate presentation of the 
cropping of this region. The third schedule, which ap- 
parently applied to seven districts, is equally defective for 
the autumn crops, while in the spring it gives merely poppy, 
oilseeds, melons, and some vegetables. Schedules of 
assessment rates which ignore the staple produce of Malwa, 
millets, wheat, and pulses, cannot possibly present a correct 
view of the actual position; and it is scarcely conceivable 
that the compilers of the Ain should have been able to give 
some, but not all, of the sanctioned rates actually in force. 
The only explanation of the data which presents itself to 
me is that the Regulation system had been applied in its 
integrity to two districts, Raisin and Chanderi, but else- 
where all that had been done was to fix cash-rates for a few 
market-crops, leaving the food-grains to be assessed on 
some other system, the nature of which is not on record. 
B1HAR! was not one of the provinces which were brought 
under direct administration in the 1gth year, and hence 
there cannot have been adequate data for preparing schedules 
of cash-rates five years later, nor are any such schedules on 
record. The Account shows, however that the Regulation 
system had been applied to most -of the province, and we 
may conjecture that this step was taken at some date between 
the 25th and the 4oth year. The system had not been 
extended to the district of Monghyr, and in some other 
districts there are subdivisions which seem to have been 
left under Chiefs; in all, 138 subdivisions out of the total of 
199 were ‘‘ Regulation.” 
In BENGAL Akbar maintained the method of assessment 
which was in operation at the time when the province 
was annexed. It is described as nasag, a term which, as 
is explained in Appendix D, is of uncertain import; it 
1 In some works of the period the name Bihir is limited to the country 
South of the Ganges, but in the Ain it bears substantially its present 
meaning, including Saran. Champaran, and Tirhut on the North of the 
river