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Bring out the main features of the administrative system under Delhi Sultanate during Turko-Afghan period

  • UPSC 2006
  • The Fourteenth Century

The Turko-Afghan phase of the Delhi Sultanate, spanning the Mamluk (Ilbari), Khalji, and Tughluq dynasties from 1206 until the disintegration that set in after Firuz Tughluq's death in 1388, produced an administrative apparatus that was neither a straightforward transplant of Perso-Islamic bureaucratic models nor a purely military occupation regime. It evolved through experimentation into a…

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  • The Sultan and the Apex of Government
  • The Central Ministries (Diwans)
  • The Iqta System as the Backbone of Provincial Rule
  • The Judiciary: Sharia Alongside Zawabit
  • The Army: From Iqta Levies to Cash-Salaried Standing Force
  • Revenue Administration: From Estimation to Measurement

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