At this time there were twenty-five sirkars belonging to Gujarát, as before detailed, nine of which, being conquests by the Gujarát kings from other súbahs, were afterwards attached to their original countries. This arrangement was effected during the provincial government of Shahábu-d-dín Ahmad Khán, A. Hij. 986; A.D. 1578, by an order from the Emperor; and the names of these sirkars were—

Sirkar Júdhpúr.
Sirkar Jalore.
Sirkar Nagore, united to the súbah of Ajmír.
Sirkar Múlhír attached to Khándesh.
Sirkar Nadarbár
Sirkar Bassein parts of the Tul-Konkan, given over to the Europeans.
Sirkar Manbai
Sirkar Damman
Sirkar Dand-Rájpúrí made the possession of the Nizám Sháhí and government of Ahmad­nagar.

Of the remaining sixteen sirkars, which belonged to the Dehlí government, ten were entered in the imperial registers; but, as the sirkar of Súrat had been assigned over to the revenue writers, nine sirkars only are entered in the collection from the súbah of Gujarát, namely—

Mahls.
Sirkar Ahmadábád 33
Sirkar Bhroch 14
Sirkar Patan 17
Sirkar Baroda 4
Sirkar Nadote 12
Sirkar Chámpánír 13
Sirkar Godhrah 11
Sirkar Sorath 63
Sirkar Navánagar, called also Islámnagar 17
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The latter, during the reign of Sháh Álam I., was seized on by the Jam, a zamíndár of that part; and is now in his possession.

The whole number of sirkars, arranged as above, contained one hundred and eighty-four mahls, including cities and parganahs, in which there were fifteen ports and 10,465 towns, exclusive of those possessed by the zamíndárs, and not inserted in the revenue records. The fields belonging to these were, in the time of Rájá Todar Mal, measured by Akbar's order, and found to contain 12,360,594 bígahs and nine biswahs; out of which there were 8,374,498 bígahs* and three biswahs fit for cultivation. The remainder consisted of waste land.

The sirkars of Sorath, Godhrah, and Islám­nagar, which, with forty-nine mahls of other sirkars, were not measured, do not appear in the revenue registers.

The sirkars not included in the revenue assessment, and belonging to zamíndárs, paid the peshkash (tribute), when enforced, to the governors of the province. These were,

Sirkar Dúngarpúr
Sirkar Bánswárah
Sirkar Kach, called Suleimán-Nagar
Sirkar Sirohí
Sirkar Somnáth
Sirkar Rám Nagar

of which the peshkash had been settled, how­ever, on the revenue writers at the port of Súrat. Though the above, in former times, were not dependent on the Díwánship of the province, the collection therefrom, including the sirkar of Súrat, with the remissions and deductions on the public increase, amounted to 799,645,213 dams, even to the reign of Moham­med Sháh.

Twenty krores, eighty-two laks, six hundred and forty-two dams (20,8200,642) of the above sum were fixed for the imperial use and royal expenses. A sum, also, of 2,2000,000 dams was set aside for the Nizámat, and personal jágírs of the Sirdárs: so that, without the tribute from the zamíndárs, there was the sum of twenty-four laks of rupees belonging to the Názim. The remainder was settled to pay the Omarás, Mansabdárs, and other servants.

Nearly one krore and twenty laks of dams, collected from fifty thousand bígahs of land and one hundred and three villages, with one lak and forty thousand rupees, in money, were variously given away, as rewards and pensions to religious orders and establishments, agree­ably to instructions from the government.

The whole annual revenue, at present, is one krore, twenty-three laks, and fifty thousand rupees, whilst the whole annual expence amounts to one krore of rupees. In former times, how­ever, the surplus revenue payable to govern­ment amounted to sixty laks of rupees, not including the peshkash paid to the Sirkar, and to the Názim or provincial governor.