In Maharashtra there is a controversy about tolls. They seem to have erupted everywhere, as new roads and highways are built. In the (bad) old days, when the motherland was divided into jaagirs (fiefdoms), the local chieftain had complete freedom to put up a toll barrier on entry and exit into the local jaagir. The jaagir itself was a lifetime land grant from the monarch, which gave complete freedom to the jaagirdar to tax in his local kingdom. This system was introduced by the Sultans of Delhi in the 13th century, adopted by the Maratha kings, and later continued by the British. The Government of India abolished it in 1951.

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