Explain the Taxation Policy imposed by colonial government upon the pastoralists to expand their revenue income.
To expand its revenue income, the colonial government looked for every possible source of taxation.
1. Taxes were imposed on land, on canal water, on salt, on trade goods and even on animals.
2. Pastoralists had to pay tax on every animal they grazed on the pastures.
3. In most pastoral tracts of India, grazing tax was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century.
4. The tax per head of cattle went up rapidly and the system of collection was made increasingly efficient.
5. In the decades between the 1850s and 1880s the right to collect the tax was auctioned out to contractors
