Which of the following is a method of payment of the mansabdars in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option 3 - Both options, 1 and 2
The Mughal administrative system had at its apex a military- cum-bureaucratic apparatus (mansabdari) which was responsible for looking after the civil and military affairs of the state.
Some mansabdars were paid in cash ( naqdi), while the majority of them were paid through assignments of revenue (jagirs) in different regions of the empire. They were transferred periodically.
The following were the options:
Option 1- Naqdi
Option 2- Jagir
Option 3- Both options, 1 and 2.
Option 4- Neither 1 nor 2.
Thus Option 3 is the correct answer.