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Cholas collected land revenue?

Answer 1

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• Most of the taxes during the Chola period were collected in kind.
• Land revenue for the cultivable lands was normally collected in paddy.
• The tax on plough was collected in paddy, that on salt pan in salt, while tax on shepherds was insisted in ghee.
• Sometimes tax on land was insisted in money.
• Chola government depended mainly on the land revenue as the main source of income.
• 1/6 of the land produce was collected as tax. Besides land revenue, customs and tolls were the other source of income for the empire.
• The functionaries for collecting revenue were generally recruited from influential families. Their positions were often hereditary.
• This was true about the army as well. In many cases, close relatives of the king held these positions.

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