ABSTRACT
Pattern of non-agricultural production and its overall significance in the economy of 'pre-colonial' India has been a subject of several scholarly studies, but the focus has been primarily on the capital cities like Agra, Delhi, Lahore, etc., and the coastal regions. This chapter is mostly based on revenue records of Kota preserved at the Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner. An estimate of the size of non-agricultural sector and its proportion to the agricultural population can be made on the basis of such taxes and cesses which were realized at a fixed rate from an individual household. The toji-do-varkhi-baje-talke offers the numbers and the names of the non-agriculturist households such as artisans and menial castes under the head kholari. The series of the toji-do-varkhi-baje-talke furnish information on artisans, menial castes and their number of houses. The toji-do-varkhi-baje-talke contains approximately 22 castes in qasba Sangod and 26 castes in qasba Mangrol of craftsman and menial castes.
