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Rank (manṣab) in the Mogul State Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

W. H. Moreland
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In this article I propose to examine the position held by the executive officers ofthe Mogul Empire in the light of some new documentary evidence, and from a standpoint different from that occupied by earlier writers on the subject. It is well known that there was no differentiation between civil and military employment: all officers, from the princes of the blood down to what would now be called sergeants and corporals, formed a single State Service, in which each individual had a definite rank or position (manṣab); and ordinarily each of them had to maintain out of his emoluments acontingent of cavalry available for the Emperor's work. Some officers might receive their emoluments in cash, but as a rule payment was made by an assignment of the land-revenue of a specified area (jāgīr), which the recipient made his own arrangements to collect. The questions at issue relate mainly to the remuneration ofofficers and the size and constitution of their contingents.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , October 1936 , pp. 641 - 665
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1936

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