Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

The Mughal Empire - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Introduced by Akbar - unique feature of the administrative system of the Mughal Empire.
        
        Every officer was assigned a rank or a mansab.
        
        The mansabdars formed the ruling group in the Mughal Empire.
        
        The lowest rank in the system was 10 and the highest was 5000 for nobles.
        
        It was a grading system used by the Mughal to fix rank, salary and military responsibility.
        
        These ranks were divided into zat and sawar. Zat fixed the personal status of a person and the salary due to him. The higher the zat, the more prestigious was the noble’s position in court and the larger his salary.
        
        The sawar rank indicated the number of cavalrymen or sawar a mansabdar was required to maintain. For every 10 cavalrymen, the mansabdar had to maintain twenty horses.
        
        The mansabdars received their salaries as revenue assignments called jagirs. Most of the mansabdars did not actually reside or administer these jagirs. They only had the right to the revenue of their assignments which was collected for them by their servants while the mansabdars themselves served in some other part of the country.
        
        Jahangir reduced the average rate of zat salary from 240 per annum to 200 per annum.
        
        Shahjahan reduced the number of sawars a noble was required to maintain.
        
        During Aurangzeb’s reign, there was a huge increase in the number of mansabdars leading to a shortage of jagirs.
    - - A uniform system of measurement was established for calculating the land tax.
        
        Todarmal drew up schemes for effective tax collection.
        
        This system enriched the state treasury.
        
        The state also give loans to poor farmers which ushered in progress in agriculture, trade and industry