During the Mughal rule, who was responsible for ensuring that imperia…

The correct answer is Option (1) → Amin

The amin was a Mughal official responsible for ensuring that imperial regulations were carried out in the provinces. His work was closely tied to land revenue. The Mughal state measured the cultivated and cultivable land of each province, and in 1665 Aurangzeb ordered that the amins of the parganas should find out the actual conditions of cultivation, village by village and peasant by peasant, before the revenue was assessed.

Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.

* A similar question.

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.…”