write a short note on zat and Sawar ?
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What is Zat and Sawar from the Mughal period?
Zat and Sawar were used to indicate ranks of a Military official in Mansabdari system under Mughals.
Mansabdari System: The Mughal emperors maintained a large and efficient army till the reign of Aurangzeb.The credit of organizing the Mughal nobility and army systematically goes to Akbar.The steel-frame of Akbar's military policy was the mansabdari system.Through it he set up a bureaucracy which was half-civil and half-military in character.
The word mansab means a place or position. The mansab awarded to an individual fixed both his status in the official hierarchy and also his salary. It also fixed the number of armed retainers the holders of mansab was to maintain.The system was formulated to streamline rank of the nobles, fix their salary and specify the number of cavalry to be maintained by them.
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