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Throw light on the Land Revenue System of Sultanate period.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Land revenue was the fiscal backbone of the Delhi Sultanate.

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  • The Pre-Khalji Base: Kharaj and the Rural Intermediaries
  • Alauddin Khalji's Reconstruction of the Revenue System
  • The Doab Devastation
  • Course Correction: Ghiyasuddin and Muhammad Tughluq
  • Firuz Shah Tughluq: Retrenchment and the First Jama

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