How were taxes collected by the British from the pastoralists?

(i) Thx was imposed on land, canal water, salt, trade goods and even on
animals.
(ii) Pastoralists had to pay tax on every animal they grazed on the pastures.
(iii) The light to collect the tax was auctioned out to contractors. These contractors tried to extract as high a tax as they could, to recover the money they had paid to the state and earn as much profit as they could within a year.
Later on, governments began collecting taxes directly from the pastoralists.