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Do you think that the economic measures introduced by the Sultanate rulers beneficial to the common people as well? Illustrate with examples.

  • UPSC 2016
  • The Fourteenth Century

The economic interventions of the fourteenth-century Sultans — Alauddin Khalji's market controls and land-revenue overhaul, Muhammad bin Tughluq's agricultural experiments, and Firuz Tughluq's irrigation and tax reforms — were conceived overwhelmingly as instruments of state fiscal-military capacity. Yet several of them produced real, measurable relief for ordinary subjects, even where that relief was incidental rather…

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