🔆 Mughal Period

📍 Designation & Responsibilities

✅ Faujdar
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts: In charge of Sarkar (Comparable to modern-day district collector).

✅ Ganj
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts: A grain market.

✅ Gomastha
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts:
- Gomastha described an Indian agent of the British East India Company employed in the Company's colonies, to sign bonds, usually compellingly, by local weavers and artisans to deliver goods to the Company.
- The prices of the goods were fixed by the gomasthas.
- The goods were exported by the Company to Europe and America. Gomastha may also be described as ‘a paid manager of the private trader’s concerns’, who claimed ‘hardly any share in the profit and loss of his employer’s business’.

✅ Ibadat Khana
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts:
- The Ibadat Khana was a meeting house built in 1575 CE by the Mughal Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri to gather spiritual leaders of different religious grounds so as to conduct a discussion on the teachings of the respective religious leaders.

✅ Khots/Muqaddam
🔹 Period: Delhi Sultanate
🔹 Important Facts: Village headman.

✅ Khalsa
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts: Land revenue directly for imperial treasury.

✅ Khums
🔹 Period: Medieval India
🔹 Important Facts: Tax on plunder.

#history

MPPSC Previous Year ( PYQ )

Forwarded from UPSC History

🔆 Mughal Period

📍 Designation & Responsibilities

✅ Faujdar
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts: In charge of Sarkar (Comparable to modern-day district collector).

✅ Ganj
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts: A grain market.

✅ Gomastha
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts:
- Gomastha described an Indian agent of the British East India Company employed in the Company's colonies, to sign bonds, usually compellingly, by local weavers and artisans to deliver goods to the Company.
- The prices of the goods were fixed by the gomasthas.
- The goods were exported by the Company to Europe and America. Gomastha may also be described as ‘a paid manager of the private trader’s concerns’, who claimed ‘hardly any share in the profit and loss of his employer’s business’.

✅ Ibadat Khana
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts:
- The Ibadat Khana was a meeting house built in 1575 CE by the Mughal Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri to gather spiritual leaders of different religious grounds so as to conduct a discussion on the teachings of the respective religious leaders.

✅ Khots/Muqaddam
🔹 Period: Delhi Sultanate
🔹 Important Facts: Village headman.

✅ Khalsa
🔹 Period: Mughal period
🔹 Important Facts: Land revenue directly for imperial treasury.

✅ Khums
🔹 Period: Medieval India
🔹 Important Facts: Tax on plunder.

#history

hottg.com/mppsc_pyq/9114

1.2K viewsMay 27 at 14:52