Question

shivaji maharaj policy regarding agriculture
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Answer 1

This was not the situation in the 17th century when Shivaji Maharaj , the great ruled.In those days the stats had to depend upon their own sources of income howsoever they were limited. Therefore they had to face a number of difficulties & hurdles. Shivaji Maharaj state was no exception to it. It was newly born small state with limited resources. Shivaji Maharaj had to toil & use his skill as an administrator to utilize these available scare resources for the upliftment of his subjects. He always faces this problem ,the problem of resources ,He had many ideas in his mind but he could not embody them due to Paucity of funds & revenue.

This was not the situation in the 17th century when Shivaji Maharaj , the great ruled.In those days the stats had to depend upon their own sources of income howsoever they were limited. Therefore they had to face a number of difficulties & hurdles. Shivaji Maharaj state was no exception to it. It was newly born small state with limited resources. Shivaji Maharaj had to toil & use his skill as an administrator to utilize these available scare resources for the upliftment of his subjects. He always faces this problem ,the problem of resources ,He had many ideas in his mind but he could not embody them due to Paucity of funds & revenue.

Shivaji wrote a letter to his officer in Prabhanvalli area (Sangameshwar) in 1676. He clearly mentioned that help the farmers with donation of seeds & tax benefit for them in drought condition & warned his army to not to touch a single plant from farmers field.