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How was Iqta system of the Sultans different from the Jagir system under the Mughals?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

Both the iqta of the Delhi Sultanate and the jagir of the Mughal Empire were revenue-assignment systems that paid officials by granting them the right to collect land revenue from a territory rather than a cash salary, but the two systems belonged to markedly different administrative logics.

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  • The Iqta System: Origins and Basic Structure
  • Evolution of the Iqta under Successive Sultans
  • The Jagir System: Origins and Basic Structure
  • The Revenue Machinery Behind the Jagir
  • Key Points of Difference

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