The man who had to pay a revenue of ten thousand could not be induced to pay five: he enjoyed an acknowledged _nankar_ of two thousand upon a recognised rent-roll of twelve thousand; and, to induce him to pay, he gives him an increase to this _nankar_ of one thousand, making the _nankar_ three thousand, and reducing the revenue to nine thousand.

Being determined to render the increase to his _nankar_ permanent, whether the Government consents or not, the landholder agrees to pay the ten thousand for the present year.

The collector sends the whole or a part of the one thousand as gratuities to influential men at Court, and enters it in the public accounts as irrecoverable balance.

The present Amil, finding that the increase to the _nankar_ has not been acknowledged by Government, demands the full ten thousand rupees for the present year.

The landholder refuses to pay anything, takes to the jungles, and declares that he will resist till his permanent right to the increase be acknowledged.
The Amil has taken the contract at the rate of last year, as the Government had sanctioned no increase to the _nankar_, and he pleads in vain for a remission in the rate, which he pledged himself to pay, or an increase of means to enforce payment among so turbulent and refractory a body of landholders.