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What was the Sardeshmukhi tax demanded by Maratha rulers?

Additional 10% levy claimed by the king as hereditary paramount head of the land ✓

Toll tax collected at river crossings

Tax levied on urban markets

Import duty on foreign luxury goods

Sardeshmukhi was an additional 10% levy the Maratha king claimed as the hereditary Sardeshmukh (paramount headman) of the Maratha homeland — collected on top of Chauth, together forming a major, and separate, revenue stream from regular land tax.

In the Mughal agrarian economy, peasants who cultivated lands in their own villages where they resided permanently were classified as:

Khudkasht ✓

Pahi-kasht

Muzarian

Mujarian

Khudkasht peasants were resident cultivators farming their own village's land continuously — contrasted with Pahi-kasht, non-resident cultivators who migrated in to farm land in a village not their own, often on more favorable terms to attract labor.

What were the non-resident migratory cultivators cultivating lands in neighboring villages called in Mughal records?

Pahi-kasht ✓

Khudkasht

Ryots

Zamindars

Pahi-kasht cultivators farmed land outside their home village, often because a village offered better terms to attract labor for underused land — an important category showing agrarian labor mobility, not a static or fully bound peasantry.

The silver currency coin Rupiya was introduced for the first time in India by which medieval ruler?

Alauddin Khalji

Sher Shah Suri ✓

Akbar

Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Sher Shah Suri introduced the silver Rupiya (a standardized, high-purity coin of about 178 grains) during his brief but administratively influential reign — the coin's basic weight standard endured through the Mughal period and beyond, the ancestor of the modern rupee.

The gold coin issued during the Mughal period, valued at approximately 9 to 10 silver rupees, was officially named:

Mohur ✓

Dam

Pagoda

Hon

The Mohur was the standard Mughal gold coin, valued at roughly 9-10 silver Rupiyas depending on period and exchange rates — Dam was the copper coin, making these two, along with the Rupiya, the tri-metallic backbone of Mughal currency.

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