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“An important feature of agriculture in Mughal India has been the large number of crops raised by the peasants.” Illustrate by giving examples.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The sheer crop diversity of Mughal India — spanning food-grains, cash crops, fruits, vegetables, and spices across sharply differing agro-climatic zones — is one of the clearest indicators that its agrarian economy was neither static nor narrowly subsistence-oriented.

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  • Food Crops: The Kharif–Rabi Framework
  • Cash Crops: Cultivation Driven by Market Demand
  • Fruits, Vegetables, and Spices: Horticultural Expansion
  • Productivity and the Evidence Base

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