{"id":2575,"date":"2025-05-04T19:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:04:27","slug":"q-in-medieval-india-the-designations-mahattara-and-pattakila-were-used-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-in-medieval-india-the-designations-mahattara-and-pattakila-were-used-for","title":{"rendered":"Q. In medieval India, the designations \u2018Mahattara\u2019 and \u2018Pattakila\u2019 were used for"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>military officers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>village headmen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>specialists in Vedic rituals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>chiefs of craft guilds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) village headmen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-6816d51f49810\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In medieval India, the designations \u201cMahattara\u201d and \u201cPattakila\u201d were used for\u00a0<strong>village headmen<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mahattara:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This term generally referred to the\u00a0<strong>superior or main village headman,<\/strong>\u00a0often responsible for overall administration and revenue collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pattakila:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This term referred to a\u00a0<strong>subordinate or assistant village headman<\/strong>, who assisted the Mahattara in his duties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Functions:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They were responsible for\u00a0<strong>maintaining law and order, settling disputes, ensuring the collection of taxes, and the welfare of the villagers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) village headmen Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[41],"years":[59],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-medieval-history","years-59"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":41,"label":"Medieval History"}],"years":[{"value":59,"label":"2014"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":41,"name":"Medieval History","slug":"medieval-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}