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Will it not be correct to say that the rural economy in Mughal India was relatively self-sufficient?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The Mughal village is often pictured as a closed, self-sufficient unit reproducing itself year after year with minimal outside contact — a picture that holds only partially once tested against the evidence.

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  • The Case for Self-Sufficiency
  • The Limits of the Self-Sufficiency Thesis
  • Revenue Demand and Monetisation
  • Commercial Agriculture and the Cash-Crop Pull
  • Social Stratification Within the Village
  • Vulnerability and State Regulation

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