Chauth
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Chauth (from Sanskrit meaning one-fourth) was a tax or tribute imposed, from early eighteenth century, by the Maratha Empire in India. It was nominally levied at 25% on revenue or produce, whence the name.
The right to assess and collect this tax was asserted first by Shivaji in the later seventeenth century, on spurious[citation needed] grounds that his family were hereditary tax collectors in Maharashtra. The sardeshmukhi was an additional 10% levy on top of the chauth.[1]
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- ^ S. A. A. Rizvi, p. 263 of A Cultural History of India (1975), edited by A. L. Basham
