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Discuss the implications of Khilji with reference to administration and economic regulations on the State and people of India

  • UPSC 1997
  • The Fourteenth Century

The Khalji interlude, and above all the reign of Alauddin Khalji (1296–1316), produced one of the sharpest divergences in Sultanate history between the fortunes of the state and the fortunes of its subjects. Administrative centralisation and market regulation together built a fiscal-military machine of unprecedented reach, but that machine was financed almost entirely out of…

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  • The State's Ledger: Centralisation and Capacity
  • The People's Ledger: Burden and Coercion
  • Balancing the Ledger

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