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Delineate the state of agriculture during the Sultanate period.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Agriculture under the Delhi Sultanate was not transformed by any single technological revolution, yet it was far from static.

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  • An Extensive Agrarian Base
  • Crops and Cropping Pattern
  • Irrigation, Technology, and the Canal-Building Sultans
  • State-Driven Experiments: Muhammad Tughluq's Farms and Firuz's Orchards
  • The Limits of Change

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