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The market regulations of Ala-ud-din Khilji were useful for the Sultan’s military might but harmful for the economy of the Sultanate. Comment.
- UPSC 2022
- The Fourteenth Century
Alauddin Khilji's market-control system (1296–1316), built around fixed prices, state-run grain mandis, registered merchants, and an enforcement bureaucracy of spies and officials, is one of the most administratively ambitious experiments of the pre-Mughal Sultanate. The question sets up a genuine trade-off rather than a simple verdict, and the evidence supports weighing both halves seriously: the…
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- The Architecture of Control
- The Military-Benefit Case
- The Economic-Harm Case
- Weighing the Trade-off
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