Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:

Match the following options correctly:

List 1

List 2

(a) Manzil-abadi  

(i) covers the military and civil administration and the establishment of servants.

(b) Sipah-abadi 

(ii) statistical information, which includes the geographic, topographic, and economic profile of all subas.

(c) Mulk-abadi

(iii) concerns the imperial household and its maintenance.

(d) Account of the Twelve Provinces 

(iv) gives a detailed and highly complex view of agrarian society in northern India. 

 

Options:

(a)- ii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) iii

(a)- iii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d) ii

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- ii, (d) iv

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) ii

Correct Answer:

(a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d) ii

Explanation:

Parts of the Ain and their content-

Manzil-abadi concerns the imperial household and its maintenance.
Sipah-abadi covers the military and civil administration and the establishment of servants.
Mulk-abadi concerns with the fiscal side of the empire and provides rich quantitative information on revenue rates. It also gives a fascinating, detailed, and highly complex view of agrarian society in northern India.
Account of the Twelve Provinces concerns the statistical information, which includes the geographic, topographic, and economic profile of all subas.