[On the prospects of representative government, in Rājputāna see the statement of the Mahārāja of Bīkaner—_The Times_, 10th May 1917.] Footnote 10.7.5: [McCrindle, _Megasthenes_, 41.] Footnote 10.7.6: [_Āl_, _Morinda citrifolia_, from which a dye is made; _kusumbha_, safflower, _Carthamus tinctorius_, also a dye (Watt, _Econ. Prod._ 783 f., 276 ff.).] Footnote 10.7.7: [_Moth_, _Phaseolus aconitifolius_; _mūng_, _P. mungo_; _til_, _Sesamum indicum_.] Footnote 10.7.8: [Juār and bājra are millets; makkai is maize.] Footnote 10.7.9: _Panicum Italicum_ [_Setaria italica_], produced abundantly in the valley of the Rhine, as well as _makkai_, there called Velsh corn; doubtless the maizes would alike grow in perfection. [Watt, _Comm. Prod._ 988.] Footnote 10.7.10: It would be more correct to say that _batai_, or ‘payment in kind,’ is divided into two branches, namely, _kut_ and _lattha_; the first being a portion of the standing crop by conjectural estimate; the other by actual measure, after reaping and thrashing. Footnote 10.7.11: [_Kūt_ means ‘valuation, appraisement.’] Footnote 10.7.12: The patel of Haraoti, like the zemindar of Bengal, was answerable for the revenues; the one, however, was hereditary only during pleasure; the other perpetually so. The extent of their authorities was equal. ----- CHAPTER 8 =The Farming Monopoly.=—Let us proceed with the most prominent feature of the regent’s internal administration—his farming monopoly—to which he is mainly indebted for the reputation he [539] enjoys throughout Rajputana. The superficial observer, who can with difficulty find a path through the corn-fields which cover the face of Haraoti, will dwell with rapture upon the effects of a system in which he discovers nothing but energy and efficiency: he cannot trace the remote causes of this deceptive prosperity, which originated in moral and political injustice. It was because his own tyranny had produced unploughed fields and deserted villages, starving husbandmen and a diminishing population; it was with the distrained implements and cattle of his subjects, and in order to prevent the injurious effects of so much waste land upon the revenue, that Zalim commenced a system which has made him farmer-general of Haraoti; and he has carried it to an astonishing extent. There is not a nook or a patch in Haraoti where grain can be produced which his ploughs do not visit. Forests have disappeared; even the barren rocks have been covered with exotic soil, and the mountain’s side, inaccessible to the plough, is turned up with a spud, and compelled to yield a crop.