1. P.A. Wadia & N.C. Joshi, The Wealth of India, (London, 1925), p. 281.
2. Dharma Kumar, The fiscal system’, Cambridge Economic History of India, II, (Cambridge, 1983) hereafter CEHI; unless otherwise stated, all figures for India are from this source.
3. MG. Ranade, Essays on Indian Economics, (Bombay, 1898).
4. See the discussion of the literature in English in R. van Niel, ‘The function of Land Rent under the Cultivation System in Java’, Journal of Asian Studies, XXIII, 1964, pp. 357–375.
5. J.C. Heesterman, ‘The state and society in a colonial context: India and Indonesia’, (unpublished, 1980), p. 19.