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Mansabdaari system

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The Mansabadari system was a grading system used by the Mughals to decide rank, salary and military responsibilities. It was introduced by Akbar. Under this system every officer of the Mughal empire was given a rank or ‘mansab’. The lowest rank in the system was 10 whereas the highest was 5000 for the nobles. Furthermore, the ranks were divided into two categories- zat and sawar. Zat was the personal status of a person and the salary given to him whereas sawar rank means the number of sawar or cavalrymen a mansabdar have to maintain. The mansabdar had to maintain twenty horses for every ten cavalrymen. The mansabdars were paid their salaries in terms of revenue assignments called jagirs.
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