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Evaluate the impact of Mughal revenue administration on the agrarian structure of North India. To what extent did it bring continuity and change in the rural socio-economic fabric?

  • UPSC 2025
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The Mughal revenue system was not merely a fiscal mechanism for extracting the state's share of the harvest — it structured the very relationships that organised rural North India, making its evaluation inseparable from a wider assessment of Mughal agrarian society itself.

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  • The Machinery of Assessment: Zabt, Dahsala and Their Alternatives
  • The Tripolar Relationship: A New Structuring Logic
  • Continuity: The Zamindar and the Village Community
  • Genuine Change: Monetisation, Cash-Nexus, and the Drift Toward Revenue-Farming

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