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Evaluate the contribution of Sher Shah towards trade and commerce, administration and agricultural reforms.

  • UPSC 2020
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Sher Shah Suri's five-year reign (1540-1545) is better read as a working prototype of the Mughal fiscal-administrative state than as an isolated set of Sultanate-era reforms.

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  • Contribution to Administration
  • Contribution to Trade and Commerce
  • Contribution to Agricultural Reforms
  • Evaluation: An Integrated Statecraft

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