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Analyse the merits and demerits of the Mansabdari System. How did it work under Akbar’s successors?

  • UPSC 1993
  • Akbar

The mansabdari system solved Akbar's problem of controlling a diverse conquest nobility, but the very mechanism that gave it strength — tying every noble's income to a transferable jagir rather than a fixed territorial base — carried within it the structural weakness that historians identify as the eventual jagirdari crisis.

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  • Merits: What the System Achieved
  • Demerits: The Structural Weaknesses
  • Functioning Under Jahangir and Shah Jahan
  • The Acute Crisis Under Aurangzeb

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