UPSC · Prelims and Mains
Ancient and Medieval History, Art and Culture
← The Mughal empireAgrarian society, trade and European travellers
- Khud-kashta and pahi-kashta peasants, village panchayat and headman, forests and tribes in Ain-i-Akbari
- Zamindars: hereditary rights, milkiyat, fortresses, role in revenue collection and revolts
- Maize, tobacco, chillies, potato, pineapple, papaya and guava enter via the Portuguese in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries
- European travellers mughal
- Inland and overseas trade, hundi and sarrafs, silver inflow, Surat and Masulipatnam, Banjaras
- Mughal peasant production: ploughing, sowing, irrigation, cropping seasons and commercial crops
- Women in Mughal agrarian society: agricultural and artisanal work, marriage customs and property rights
- Mughal village artisans and reciprocal services, miras and watan land assignments
- Mughal forest and tribal frontiers: subsistence, trade, tribute, elephant capture and state expansion
