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Agricultural Statistics of Mughal India: A Reconsideration:
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In this paper, the authors present and former Directors and the staff of the B.J. Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad for their generous and unstinted help during my research there.Abstract:
Acknowledgements: I am grateful to Professors Harbans Mukhia and Muzaffar Alam (JNU, New Delhi) for their help, suggestions and encouragement in the preparation of this paper. I am also thankful to my colleague, Professor S.M. Rashid for extending his valuable help. It is my pleasure to record my debt to the present and former Directors and the staff of the B.J. Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad for their generous and unstinted help during my research there. In studies of the agrarian system and economy of the Mughal empire, agricultural statistics, that is, area figures ( jamadami, hasil, etc. ) occupy a pivotal position. Modern historians have utilized the available data to anread more
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The Mughal Empire
TL;DR: The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralised states in pre-modern world history as discussed by the authors and it was founded in the early 1500s and by the end of the following century the Mughals ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with a population of between 100 and 150 millions.