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essay on mansabdars and jagirdars​

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Mansabdari System was the bureaucratic administration system of the Mughal Rulers in India. What does the term ‘Mansab’ mean?

The bureaucratic administration of Mughals in India was based on a system called Mansabdari System.

Those nobles who joined Mughal service were enrolled as mansabdars

The Jagirdar system began during the Delhi Sultanate and continued during the Mughal regime. However there was a difference. In the Mughal period the Jagirdars paid their salary from the revenue they collected. They submitted the rest to the Mughal treasury. The administration and military was appointed separately by the Mughal.Jagir was a piece of land which was given to the Mansabdars as salary. There were other mansabdars who were paid through cash. The Jagirdars during the Mughal period were the all the assignees of the jagirs. The Jagirdar was a feudal class who collected taxes as a form of revenue.

After the death of the Jagirdar, the land was seized by the Mughals. The Mughal officers who received land grants (jaigir) were known as jagirdars.There sole duty was that of revenue collection.The mansabdars who were paid in the form of cash was known as Naqdi and those who were paid through land were called Jagirdars.