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Discuss different types of Karkhanas in Mughal India. How was the production organized in the Karkhanas?

  • UPSC 2010
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The karkhana was Mughal India's distinctive institution of large-scale, collective manufacture — a departure from the otherwise overwhelmingly decentralized, household-based craft economy of the period.

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  • Why Karkhanas Existed at All
  • Imperial Karkhanas
  • Provincial Karkhanas
  • Private (Noble) Karkhanas
  • Later "Commercial" Karkhanas
  • Organization of Production Within the Karkhanas

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