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‘The economic measures of Alauddin Khalji were aimed at greater political control’. Discuss

  • UPSC 2019
  • The Fourteenth Century

Alauddin Khalji's agrarian and market interventions are usually read through their fiscal-military rationale — funding a large standing army against the Mongols — or through their effect on ordinary consumers and cultivators. This answer takes a narrower and more precise angle: read as a coherent set of measures, Alauddin's economic reforms functioned above all as…

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  • Measured Assessment as an Attack on Intermediary Power
  • Market Control as Bypass of Merchant and Guild Autonomy
  • Social Restriction on the Nobility: Pre-empting Conspiracy
  • Distinguishing This From a Population-Wide Reading
  • Historiographical Assessment

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