MHI-04: POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN INDIA
Course Code: MHI-04
Assignment Code: MHI-04/AST/TMA/2016-17
Total Marks: 100
Q6:- Discuss the working of the mansab and jagir system under the Mughals.
The mansabdari system under the Mughals in India was the
product of an evolutionary process. This institution was borrowed in some form
from Western Asia and modified to suit the needs of the time in India. The
mansabdars were an integral part of the Mughal bureaucracy and farmed, as
Percival Spear says, 'an elite within
elite'. They were appointed in all government departments except the
judiciary. They held the important offices of wazir, bakshi, faujdar and the
subadar, etc
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