MUGHAL POLITICS

LEADERS OF MUGHALS

• Founder of the Mughals is Babur (1526)
• Humayan was 2nd leader
• Akabar was most successful leader at age 13

GOVERNMENT SYSTEM

• Akbar made a government system called Mansabdari
• It allowed fair tax, and maintained control by the military officers
• This had a feudal system

POLITICAL RANKINGS

• Wazir (Prime Minister)
• Diwan (Chief revenue officer)
• Bakshi (Handled revenue system and recruited officers)
• Sadr (Appointed judges and awarded grants)

EMPIRE

• Sectioned into Provinces (Subas)
• Each led by Governors appointed by the Emperor
• The Subas were split into Parganas (Union of several villages)
• Each had a Magistrate (Shiqdar) and two Tax collectors