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Elaborate upon the agrarian reforms of Alauddin Khilji.
- UPSC 2020
- The Fourteenth Century
Alauddin Khalji's agrarian settlement, implemented across roughly the first decade of the fourteenth century, represents the most systematic overhaul of land-revenue administration attempted by any Delhi Sultan before him. It combined a sharply raised demand, a new measurement-based method of assessment, direct state administration of the empire's core territory, and a professionalised revenue bureaucracy. The…
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- Raising the Rate of Demand
- Shift From Estimation to Measurement-Based Assessment
- Direct Khalisa Administration Bypassing Intermediaries
- Standardisation and Rigour in Revenue Administration
- Mode of Payment: A Preference for Revenue in Kind
- Geographic Reach and Underlying Objective
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