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Y9R তমলুকের ইতিহাস। 8, I have gone into the subject at length, because a clear understanding of what the Salt Mushahara is, is absolutely necessary to enable us to determine how tar Government is entitled to withdraw it from Landholders, when it reliquishes the salt trade and what claim Government has to the land if it withdraws the Mushahara. The Salt Mushahara must, as it is evident from the above extracts, be regarded not only as compensation for the loss of salt trade but also as compensation for the loss of lands in the estates of zamindars upon which the salt trade was carried on. The land yielded us other revenue than salt and in paying the zamindar the Salt Mushahara, Government only gave his share of such revenues as the land yielded, and that Government required that land for the salt trade, the zamindars would either have received settlement or Malikana (mushahara). It will not be urged that the grant of the Mushahara was in lieu of the right of making salt in those portions of the Parganas which were put in their possession, for that would have been imposible. On the other hand, it will not be believed that any portion of the Suddar jama of the estate assessed on the salt lands of which the Government retained possession, the Zamindars would never have consented to such a course, 鼻 Io. The Mushahara may therefore, I think, be fairly regarded as the Malikana paid on the land held khash, but of a special nature, in-as-much as the lands were so kept, not because the Zamindars did not