Who was referred to as ‘Amin’ in the c. sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → An official responsible for ensuring that imperial regulations were carried out in the provinces
Under the Mughals, an amin was an official responsible for ensuring that imperial regulations were carried out in the provinces. In the land revenue system the amins of the parganas had a practical job: Aurangzeb’s order of 1665 tells them to find out the actual conditions of cultivation, village by village and peasant by peasant, and then to assess the revenue.
NCERT (2025-26): “6. Land Revenue System … Both cultivated and cultivable lands were measured in each province. The Ain compiled the aggregates of such lands during Akbar’s rule. Efforts to measure lands continued under subsequent emperors. For instance, in 1665, Aurangzeb expressly instructed his revenue officials to prepare annual records of the number of cultivators in each village (Source 7). Yet not all areas were measured successfully. As we have seen, forests covered huge areas of the subcontinent and thus remained unmeasured.… Amin was an official responsible for ensuring that imperial regulations were carried out in the provinces.”
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