HIS282Y1 Lecture Notes - Imperial House Of Japan, Guru Nanak, Bahmani Sultanate
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Are the onse that allow for local autonomy but at the same time there is administration, and the delhi sultanate sets up the pattern. The place of india in a growing world economy, with arab traders and others coming overseas. The land revenue system is based on the sultanate being divided into provinces, with governors called mucti, who collect land revenue from from peasants and manage the territory itself. Each one is required to keep a quota of riders and footsoldiers, however its not a permanent assignment and he"s liable to be transferred at any given time. That"s how the sultan keeps them in control. His salary is a fixed share of the revenue of the land that he has collected, so each get a land grant called iqta. They are also landgrant holders, but their revenue is smaller. Besides efficiency this can also produce breaking up of authority.
