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MODERN MIDDLE EAST INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, RIYADH – K.S.

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024 – 2025(Term II)

Subject: History Grade: 7 Book: Our Pasts - II


Lesson: 4 – The Mughal Empire
Questions & Answers
(To be written in the 100 pages Notebook) I.
Define the following:
1. Mansabdar: Mansabdars are those who had obtained a title / rank in the service of the
Mughals.
2. Jagir: The salaries of the mansabdars as revenue assignments.
3. Zat: Numerical value of rank and salaries.
4. Sawar: Sawar is a cavalryman.
5. Zabt: Revenue collected on the basis of schedule rates for individual crops.
6. Primogeniture: It is a rule of inheritance in which the eldest son is the heir to the throne
of his emperor father.
7. Coparcenary: It is the rule of inheritance in which all the sons of a father are to share
power equally.

II. Answer the following questions:

Q1. What were the central provinces under the control of the Mughals?
Ans. The central provinces under the control of the Mughals were Delhi, Kabul, Mewar,
Sindh, Marwar, Gujarat, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Chittor and Deccan.

2. What was the relationship between the mansabdar and the jagir?
Ans. Mansabdars received their salaries as revenue assignments called jagirs which were
somewhat like iqtas. The Mansabdars did not actually reside in or administer their jagirs,
rather they only had the rights to the revenue of their assignments, which was collected for
them by their servants while the mansabdars themselves served in some other part of the
country.

3. What was the role of the zamindar in Mughal administration?


Ans. ‘Zamindar’ was a term used by the Mughals to describe all intermediaries, whether the
local headmen of a village or any powerful chieftain. The role of the zamindar in Mughal
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administration was to collect the revenues and taxes from the peasants that were a source of
income for the Mughals. They acted as an intermediate between the Mughals and the
peasants and in some areas the zamindars exercised a great deal of power.

4. How were the debates with religious scholars important in the formation of Akbar’s ideas
on governance?
Ans. During the 1570s, Akbar had a discussion on religion with the Ulama, Brahmanas,
Jesuit priests who were Roman Catholics and Zoroastrians. These discussions took place
during his stay at Fatehpur Sikri in the ibadat khana. Akbar was interested in the religion and
social customs of different people and his interaction with people of different faiths made
him realise that their teachings created divisions and disharmony among his subjects. Thus,
Akbar came up with an idea known as ‘sulh-i kul’, which focused on a system of ethics –
honesty, justice and peace. Abul Fazl helped Akbar in framing a vision of governance around
this idea of sulh-i kul, which was also followed by Jahangir and Shah Jahan as well.

5. Why did the Mughals emphasise their Timurid and not their Mongol descent?
Ans. From their mother’s side, the Mughals were descendants of Genghis Khan (died 1227),
the Mongol ruler who ruled over parts of China and Central Asia. From their father’s side,
they were the successors of Timur (died 1404), the ruler of Iran, Iraq and modern-day
Turkey. However, the Mughals did not like to be called Mughal or Mongol. This was
because Genghis Khan’s memory was associated with the massacre of innumerable people.
Hence, the Mughals were proud of their Timurid ancestry.

6. How important was the income from land revenue to the stability of the Mughal Empire?
Ans. The income from land revenue played an important role in establishing stability in the
Mughal Empire. It strengthened the economic system of the Empire. The money collected
was invested in building forts and for the welfare of the subjects. Its importance can be easily
assessed from the fact that Todar Mal, Akbar ‘s revenue minister, took a survey for a 10-year
period to do proper calculation of the land revenue.

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