UGC NET History Practice Question

In the Mughal Mansabdari System, what did the dual ranks Zat and Sawar explicitly represent?

Personal status/salary tier and actual number of cavalrymen required to maintain ✓

Salary in cash and land revenue assignment value

Infantry force and artillery strength

Court rank and provincial governor post

Zat indicated a mansabdar's personal rank and salary status, while Sawar indicated the number of cavalry troopers he was obligated to maintain for the emperor — the two numbers together (e.g., "5000 Zat, 3000 Sawar") defined both status and military obligation.

Under the Vijayanagara Empire, the land granted to military commanders (Nayakas) in exchange for military service and maintenance of troops was termed:

Amaram ✓

Umbali

Bhandaravada

Manya

Amaram land grants tied Nayaka commanders' landholding directly to their military obligation to the Vijayanagara state — a structural parallel to the Mughal Jagir/Mansabdari relationship, though a distinct regional system in its own right.

What was the specific administrative function of the Diwan-i-Arz in the Delhi Sultanate?

Ministry of Military Affairs ✓

Ministry of Religious Endowments

Ministry of Imperial Correspondence

Ministry of Revenue and Finance

The Diwan-i-Arz was the military department of the Sultanate, responsible for recruitment, army administration, and (under Alauddin Khalji especially) the branding of horses (dagh) and descriptive rolls (chehra) of soldiers to prevent fraud.

Which Sultan of Delhi established a separate public works and revenue department known as Diwan-i-Amir-Kohi to extend cultivated land?

Alauddin Khalji

Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

Muhammad bin Tughlaq ✓

Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Muhammad bin Tughlaq established the Diwan-i-Amir-Kohi specifically to advance loans (taccavi) and extend agricultural land — one of his many ambitious but often poorly-executed administrative experiments.

The term Madad-i-Ma'ash during the Mughal period referred to:

Hereditary land assignments made for the maintenance of scholars and religious figures ✓

Emergency cash loans given to peasants during drought

Special allowance given to foreign merchants

Military pensions paid to imperial guards

Madad-i-Ma'ash grants supported scholars, religious figures, and institutions with tax-free or revenue-assigned land — functionally similar to the earlier Agrahara system, aimed at sustaining learning and religious life rather than military or administrative service.

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