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The significance of Alauddin Khilji economic regulations for his imperialism

  • UPSC 1989
  • The Fourteenth Century

Alauddin Khalji's economic regulations and his military expansion were not two separate achievements of the same reign but two ends of a single causal chain: cheap, state-controlled prices lowered the cost of maintaining an enormous standing army, and that army in turn made possible a simultaneous, sustained military program on two widely separated fronts —…

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  • The Cost Problem an Ordinary Treasury Could Not Solve
  • From Price Control to War Chest: The Direct Mechanism
  • The Payoff: A Two-Front Imperial Program Sustained for Over a Decade
  • A Self-Reinforcing Loop

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