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Rh Regulations. The Raja is an active, intelligent man, and manages and looks minutely into all his own affairs. He answered with great readiness every question I put to him on the state of his country. He said that it was divided into four parganas in three of which he collected his rents in money, and in the fourth in grain; that his settlements were made ryotwari, except in a few small villages, which were rented at a fixed sum to the heads of the village; that he gave every ryot a pottah specifying the amount of his land and his rent; that the rent was fixed, not varying with the seasons, though he frequently in bad seasons granted some remission to the poorer ryots; that the rent which he received in kind in one pargana was not a share of the crop, but a fixed quantity of grain from each ryot, according to the nature and extent of his land; and that he treated his ryots well, as was evident from none of them ever bringing complaints against him before the Court On my asking him how the state of