Question

describe the revenue administration of Sher Shah

Answer 1

Answer:The administrators, their staff and the forces under their command seem to have been paid by assignment of the revenue of parts of the areas administered by them.

Land revenue formed of the chief source of the state-income. But custom duties, sales tax, excise tax, additional cesses on land, cattle-tax, grazing tax, professional tax on some industries and ferry dues also added to the state’s revenues. Some income was also derived from some of the industrial and commercial undertakings of the state. Hindus paid the jazia also. This was levied on all the able-bodied adult male Hindus.