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A mansabdar's military duty was to maintain a specified number of:Read the answer and worked solution →Mansabdars received their salaries as revenue assignments called:Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar's revenue minister who surveyed crop yields and prices for ten years was:Read the answer and worked solution →The Mughal revenue system fixing cash tax per crop after Todar Mal's survey was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Zabt could not be applied in which provinces where land surveys were not possible?Read the answer and worked solution →Abul Fazl's three-volume history of Akbar's reign was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Mughal provinces were called subas and each was governed by a:Read the answer and worked solution →Mehrunnisa married Jahangir and received the title Nur Jahan in:Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar's religious discussions with ulama, Brahmanas, Jesuits and Zoroastrians took place in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Akbar's idea of universal peace was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Bijapur was annexed by Aurangzeb in 1685 and Golconda in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Mughal emperorsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Mughal officersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Mughal accession yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Mughal termsRead the answer and worked solution →Akbar or AurangzebRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the early Mughal cluesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Mughal Empire bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The horse sacrifice by which rajas asserted power around 3000 years ago was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which later Vedic texts were composed after the Rigveda?Read the answer and worked solution →In the varna order, who were expected to be farmers, herders and traders?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group had to serve the other three varnas and could not perform rituals?Read the answer and worked solution →The word janapada literally means the land where the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is an excavated janapada settlement near Meerut?Read the answer and worked solution →The special fine grey pottery with painted designs found at janapada sites is:Read the answer and worked solution →Some janapadas became mahajanapadas about how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Most mahajanapada capitals were fortified, meaning they had:Read the answer and worked solution →Soldiers of the mahajanapada armies were probably paid with:Read the answer and worked solution →The tax on crops in the mahajanapadas, called bhaga, was usually fixed at:Read the answer and worked solution →

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A mansabdar's military duty was to maintain a specified number of:

  1. Farmans
  2. Sawar
  3. Iqtas
  4. Subas
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Correct answer: B. Sawar

1. Horses were branded at review. 2. He maintained sawar or cavalrymen. 3. He was paid to keep them. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 4, The Mughal Empire._

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Mansabdars received their salaries as revenue assignments called:

  1. Subas
  2. Zabts
  3. Jagirs
  4. Iqtas
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Correct answer: C. Jagirs

1. They were somewhat like iqtas. 2. The assignments were jagirs. 3. Most mansabdars did not reside in them. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 4, The Mughal Empire._

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Akbar's revenue minister who surveyed crop yields and prices for ten years was:

  1. Abul Fazl
  2. Bairam Khan
  3. Man Singh
  4. Todar Mal
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Correct answer: D. Todar Mal

1. The survey covered 1570 to 1580. 2. Todar Mal carried it out. 3. Tax was then fixed per crop in cash. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 4, The Mughal Empire._

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