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Analyse the ordinances mentioned by Barani which Alauddin Khalji promulgated for market control

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  • The Fourteenth Century

Ziauddin Barani is the sole detailed authority for Alauddin Khalji's market-control system, and his Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi describes it not as a single decree but as a cluster of distinct ordinances (zawabit), each targeting a specific market and enforced through a common apparatus of officials. Read as Barani actually presents them, these ordinances divide naturally into…

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  • The Grain-Market Ordinance: Shahna-i-Mandi and State Granaries
  • The Cloth-and-General-Commodities Ordinance: Sarai Adl
  • The Horse, Cattle and Slave Market Ordinance
  • The Enforcement Ordinance: Officers, Spies, and Daily Reports

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