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 IIDIAI IICOME TAX The Emperor &kbar, one of he mos enlightened Mohammedan Emperors, and contemporary of Queen Elizabo6h, 6ook away most ot 6hese impos6s, including 6he ha6ed fizhh levied on infidels, and bull6 himseft an everl&sfing name. In order to compensate for he loss of revenue, he, wih he help of his famous Hindu finance minister, Rajah Toclar Mull, inroduced a en year seffiemen in he case of he land ax and subsfi- ubod money payments for payments in kind. I was one of he minues surveys ever carried ou and became he basis of Modern surveys and seffiemens, a leas in Bengal.  The effect of he abolition of he various vexatious exactions was naturally fel in he courtfry's commerce and industry. Never before or long after his period does India seem o have enjoyed such material pros- peri,y, so much so ha i is estimated ha a he ime of &kbar's death here were no less han 85 millions of reasure in he Agra for alone, and ha he oal gross reasure in all he reasuries of &kbar's empire may be given. at 70 o 80 millions serling of modern money. * Probably bis reasure was e greaes inducemen for he Emperor Shah Jahan, he grandson of &kbar, down his name mos exquisite Taj o posterity as he Mahal and oher to hand of the public builder artistic buildings, ogeher wih canals, he IsSUer to insure continued agricultural and commercial prosperity. exhausted hi He, however,' does no seem o have huge reasure let by Akbar. I was lef for &urangzib, to squander the remain- of his treasure in fighting ho wars of suetea- sion and in suppressing smaller nationalities, in order to bring he whole of India under one empire and IBM., p. 88, zt sz/. Smith,. &.. 2' 2'ru=rs of &shtio 8oiy o! (]rest Britain sad oonverslon bein8 Rs. 10 t s sovereign. Akbar, in the Journfd of the Royal Ireland, 19t5, pp. 2Bt-43. the rste of