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 INDIAN INCOME TX 811 mnutemrers, down  Mter the tax ou of ass modern Mutiny, s less in certain ren-free lands; (4) he professions and houses, which times and was not abolished Southern India; lands; (8) s Psndhsri tax came until (2) s tax on profits levied on the which was offerings of pilgrims at religious fairs, later cenvered vinees; butts into a and conquered regions, fourth. and was only abolished in 1903 (5) the customs duties; from the Mahratha chauth or the license tax on petty artisans, in the Central Pro- finally (6) trio known as the The British p,riod.--(a) Irdia u.uder the East lrdia Compay.--Without discussion as which marks epochs adopt a detailed the year Moghul and British to tacts, Shall we point for British period, because accidentally entering into anything like to the proper of a dividing line the we shall simply.appeal 1757 as our starting in that year Clive choose the their tragic Durrani, that thus clearing rule in India ? The students selection between we suffered of Ahmad Shah won the battle of Plassey? Or shall year 1761 when the Mahrathas defeat at the hands marauding chieftain of the Afghans, the road for the establishment of British of economic and constitutional his- tory of India are wise, however, i.n taking the starting point of British period n Ina. in this year that the titular Mohammedan 1765 as It was Emperor, Shah' Alam II, being unable to control his .represen- tative (Nabab) in the then Provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, granted the diwani provinces t the East India right to collect and administer paltry sum of wentsix lakhs of to be paid to the imperial reasury Company, the of these rich that revenues is the for the rupees per annum Delhi.