Question

What is mansabdari crisis

Answer 1

The mansabdari system was the administrative system of the Mughal Empire introduced by Akbar

Answer 2

Answer:

Modern research work by Satish Chandra, Nurul Hassan

and Athar Ali have pointed more towards the crisis in the

Jagirdari System. But it is noteworthy that there was a

crisis in the Mansabdari System as well, which

accelerated the crisis in the Mughal Empire. During the

later years of Aurangzeb no new mansabdar was

appointed and there was hardly any jagir left to be given

to them. One contemporary chronicler commented that

while it was difficult to get the position of a Mansabdar it

was impossible to get possession of a jagir, unless one

had an exceptionally strong army. This reveals that the

Mansabdari system was no longer tenable. But was this

due to its inherent problems, or due to external causes or

simply becauses it was a machine that had finally run its

course?

The Mughal Mansabdari system served its purpose in the

17th and early 18th Centuries, but it could not cope with

modern technology and crumbled before the onslaught of  

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Nadir Shah. This revealed that it could no longer perform

its historical role which lay in its military power. This was

all the more significant as 70% of the entire revenue of

the Mughal nobility went towards maintenance of the

army contingents. The system failed as it was unable to

change itself to meet new challenges. Thus the

Mansabdari crisis constituted one of the aspects of the

crisis facing the Mughal Empire.

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