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What were the major features of the administrative system of the Mughal State? To what extent did other Indian powers model their administration on this system in the late medieval period?

  • UPSC 1991
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

The Mughal administrative system, substantially built by Akbar and refined by his successors, combined a centralised, rule-bound bureaucracy with a decentralised revenue-collecting nobility bound to the throne through military rank.

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  • Central Administration
  • Provincial and Local Administration
  • The Mansab-Jagir System: The Empire's Real Backbone
  • Land Revenue as an Administrative Pillar
  • The Extent of Emulation by Other Indian Powers

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