Explain the meaning of the term “Banduqchi”.
The Mughal emperors had a group of the footmen (priyadan). Many of them consisted of matchlock-bearers called banduqchi. They received salaries ranging between three and seven rupees a month.
What are the problems in using the Ain as a source for reconstructing agrarian history? How do historians deal with this situation?
To what extent is it possible to characterise agricultural production in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries as subsistence agriculture? Give reasons for your answer.
Describe the role played by women in agricultural production.
Discuss, with examples, the significance of monetary transactions during the period under consideration.
Examine the evidence that suggests that land revenue was important for the Mughal fiscal system.
To what extent do you think caste was a factor in influencing social and economic relations in agrarian society?
How were the lives of forest dwellers transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
Examine the role played by zamindars in Mughal India.
Discuss the ways in which panchayats and village headmen regulated rural society.
On an outline map of the world, mark the areas which had economic links with the Mughal Empire, and trace out possible routes of communication.
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