HIS282Y1 Lecture Notes - Jagir, Bengal, Mansabdar
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Continue with the idea that the emperor in the east is a despot, head of a household. The political sphere isn"t distinct from this authority. Bernier is a french minister who travels to india during one of the last mughal emperors in order to report to louis 14 and especially the finance ministers. What"s funny is that louis14 is also an absolute monarch. Why the finance minister- because one of the greatest contribution of the mughals is advance in finance in terms of a system that incorporates a wide variety of societies. In this system they also support the practices of the traditional hindu castes, those who event pillars of exchange that allow for the circulation of value without physical gold present, so bankers. That extremely useful when you need to send salaries over vast distances. The picture presented by bernier is one of a terror state.
