From the free UGC NET History Mock Test 5 — Unit 5: Administration & Economy unit-wise mock test — real question, real answer, real explanation.
What was the Jama in Mughal land revenue documents?
Estimated or assessed revenue income from a unit of land ✓
Actual tax collected at harvest
Arrears left unpaid by farmers
Administrative expense of the village headman
Jama was the assessed/estimated revenue figure (as opposed to Hasil, the actually collected amount) — Mughal administrative records like the Ain-i-Akbari extensively tabulate Jama figures by Pargana, making them a key quantitative historical source.
The term Karkhana during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal period referred to:
State manufacturing workshops producing goods for the court, army, and administration ✓
Private retail market shops
Custom houses on state borders
Grain storage warehouses
Karkhanas were state-run workshops producing textiles, weapons, and luxury goods for the court and army — a form of centralized manufacturing distinct from ordinary market-based private production, employing large numbers of skilled artisans directly for the state.
Under Alauddin Khalji's market control policy, who was appointed as the supreme head (Shahna) of the central grain market (Mandis)?
Shahna-i-Mandi ✓
Barid-i-Mandi
Munhiyan
Diwan-i-Riasat
The Shahna-i-Mandi supervised the central grain market under Alauddin Khalji's famously strict market-control system, which fixed prices and used informants (Munhiyan/Barids) to enforce compliance — one of the most ambitious price-control experiments in medieval Indian administration.
What was the Taccavi (or Sondhar) loan system introduced during the Sultanate and Mughal eras?
State agricultural advance loans given to peasants for purchasing seeds, bullocks, and digging wells ✓
Commercial loan given to foreign sea merchants
Tax advance taken by zamindars from the state
Emergency military salary payment
Taccavi loans were state-provided agricultural credit to help peasants purchase seed, cattle, and dig wells, especially after crop failure or during land-extension drives (like Muhammad bin Tughlaq's Diwan-i-Amir-Kohi) — an early example of state-supported agrarian investment.
In the Bahmani Kingdom, administrative reforms dividing the kingdom into eight provinces (Tarafs) were instituted by which minister?
Mahmud Gawan ✓
Malik Ambar
Yusuf Adil Shah
Mir Jumla
Mahmud Gawan, the capable and famous Bahmani prime minister, reorganized the kingdom into eight Tarafs (provinces) as part of a broader set of administrative and military reforms — his career is a standard example of effective Deccan Sultanate statecraft.
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Itihaaskar — UGC NET/JRF & UPSC History Optional notes by Parveen Malik (B.Tech. (CSE), M.A. (History), History JRF). Also spelt Itihaskar.
