T1 HISTORY CH3 Emergence of New Kingdoms in South India: Later Cholas and Pandyas — Social Science STD 7 — Question

The revenue of the Chola state came mainly from the land. The land tax was known as Kanikadan. The Chola rulers carried out an elaborate survey of land in order to fix the government’s share of »the land revenue. One-third of produce was collected as land tax. It was collected mostly in kind.