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01 Jul 2023 09:23

📍 Bahamani kingdom

🖍️ Bahamani kingdom formed out of a revolt against Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq in Daulatabad

🖍️ Alaudddin Bahman Shah emerged as ruler (1347-1358)

🖍️ Gulbarga capital, conquered Goa, Dabhol, Kolhapur and Telangana

🖍️ Conflict began with Vijayanagar under Muhammad Shah 1 (1358-1375) (son of Alauddin)

🖍️ Conflicts dotted the empire till it broke up at the turn of the Century

🖍️ 5 small kingdoms formed: Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Berar, Golkonda and Bidar

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17 Apr 2023 17:05

📍 Akbar Zabti System (most prevalent)

🖍️ Land measured in bighas by(bamboo jarib system)

🖍️ 4 categories of land-

📝 Polaj - land cultivated every year

📝 Parati - fallow for 1 year

📝 Chachar - fallow for 2-3 years

📝 Banjar - fallow for longer o Akbar offered loans (Taccavi) to peasants for seeds, equipments, animals etc

🖍️ Dahsala System - 10 year assessment to calculate land revenue d. Farmers could pay in cash or kind

🖍️ Land revenue was "renumeration of soveriegnty", NOT rent

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02 Apr 2023 15:59

📍 SHER SHAH SURI

♦️ Ministers

🖍️ Diwan-i-Wizarat => Revenue Finance

🖍️ Ariz - army

🖍️ Rasalat - foreign minister

🖍️ Insha - communications

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09 Mar 2023 15:07

📍 Humayun (1530-40, 55-56)

♦️ Battles

🖍️ Battle of Chausa, 1539 (Bihar)- Humayun vs Sher Shah Suri (afghan ruler) (suri won)

🖍️ Battle of Kannauj, 1540 (UP) - Humayun vs Sher Shah Suri (suri won)

🖍️ Battle of Macchiwara , 1555 (Punjab) - Humayun vs Sikandar Shah Suri (humayun won)

💥 Died by falling from library (Shermandal) stairs at Puranaquila in Delhi, 1556

💥 Built the city of Dinpanah (world refuge) => for refugees

💥 Humayun's Tomb - built by wife Hameeda Bano Begum (haji begum)

💥 Humayun Nama - Biograpahy of Humayun by his sister Gulbadan begum

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24 Feb 2023 15:36

📍 Iltutmish Administration

🖍️ Majlis-i-Khalwat - Cabinet

🖍️ Meer-i-Insha - correspondence and letters (MEA)

🖍️ Meer-i-Arz - army admin

🖍️ Sadr-Us-Sudur - head of charities + religious endowment to madrasas

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14 Feb 2023 15:22

📍 Feroz Shah Tughlaq

♦️ Departments

🖍️ Diwan-i-Khairat - marriage of poor girls (charity)

🖍️ Diwan-i-Bangadan - employment bureau (slaves)

🖍️ Diwan-i-Istikaka - old age pension

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01 Feb 2023 17:50

🖍️ Diwan-i-Kohi => dept of Agriculture

🖍️ Ghari - house tax and Charahi - pasture tax

🖍️ Takkavi & Saundar - loans to farmers

🖍️ Encouraged cash crops

🖍️ Built Tughlaqabad

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01 Feb 2023 12:38

📍 Mohd Bin Tughlaq (1325-51)

🖍️ Birth name - Jauna

🖍️ Wisest fool

🖍️ Secular

🖍️ Ibn e Batuta => was made Qazi

🖍️ Rihla -> wrote about Tughlaq's reign (not about society)

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22 Jan 2023 07:31

📍 Alauddin Khalji (1296-1316)

♦️ 4 Administrative reforms

🖍️ Free grant of land for religious purpose

🖍️ Reorganised spy system

🖍️ Prohibited use of wine

🖍️ Nobles - shouldn't have social gatherings and inter-caste marriages without permission

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08 Jan 2023 17:27

📍 Alauddin Khalji (1296-1316)

🖍️ Nephew and son-in-law of Jalaluddin

♦️ Army -

🖍️ Permanent standing army in Delhi

🖍️ Dagh system - branding of horse

🖍️ Hooliya/Chehra - face description to prevent corruption in Army

🖍️ Cash salary to soldiers

🖍️ Expansionary policy - captured => Gujarat, Ranthambor, Mewar, Malwa, Jalore, Chittorgarh (Padmavati story)

🖍️ Deccan conquest by Malik Kafur (aka Hazar Dinari)

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21 Apr 2024 10:38

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19 Apr 2024 09:19

Medieval Administration History Quick Revision

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16 Apr 2024 09:52

CSE-2023 Final Result

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20 Mar 2024 17:52

LAXMIKANT POLITY MINDMAPS

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LAXMIKANT POLITY MINDMAPS

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20 Jun 2023 08:22

📍 Mughal rulers

Trick- BHAJSAB

🖍️ B – Babar (1526-30)
🖍️ H – Humayun (1530-40) & (1555-56) A – Akbar (1556-60)
🖍️ J – Jehangir (1605-27)
🖍️ S – Shah Jahan (1628-58)
🖍️ A – Aurangzeb (1658-1707)
🖍️ B – Bahadur Shah Zafar (1707-1712)

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10 Apr 2023 16:50

📍 Akbar (1556-1605)

🖍️ Guardian - Bairam Khan

🖍️ 2nd Battle of Panipat, 1556 - Bairam Khan vs Hemu

🖍️ Married Jodha Bai/Harka Bai

🖍️ Decree of Mazhar - decision of emperor is final in adjudication process

🖍️ Abolished Pilgrim taxes on Hindus

🖍️ Abolished religious tax (Jiziya)

🖍️ Ibadat Khana - prayer house - religious discussion happened

🖍️ Ralph Fitch (englishman) in Akbar's court => pioneer english man

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23 Mar 2023 14:09

📍 Sher Shah Suri (1540-45)

🖍️ Abolished Zamindari system => introduced New Land revenue system in India (farmer to give 1/3rd tax to king)

🖍️ Standardized weight and measurement

🖍️ Issued first Rupiya (silver) and Dam (copper) coins

🖍️ Reorganised postal system

🖍️ First to Introduce Shariya Law for judicial purpose

🖍️ Judicial Dept => Muqadma - to give justice to people

🖍️ 3 categories of land for tax (good, middle, bad)

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03 Mar 2023 16:32

📍 Babur (1526-30)

♦️ Battles

📝 Battle of Panipat, 1526 - Babur+Rana Sanga+Daulatkhan Lodhi + Mohammud Lodhi vs Ibrahim Lodhi

📝 Battle of Khanwa, 1527 - vs Rana Sanga

📝 Battle of Chanderi, 1528 (MP) - vs Medini Raja of MP

📝 Battle of Ghaghra, 1529 (Bihar)- vs Mohd Lodhi

🖍️ First to use artillery and gun powder in India

🖍️ Autobiography - "Tuzuk-i-Baburi" or Baburnama (in Turkish)

🖍️ Wrote - "Risal-i-Usaz" (Letters of Babur)

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17 Feb 2023 17:52

📍 Delhi Sultanate Administration

♦️ IQTA

🖍️ Revenue assignments => transferrable

🖍️ Iqta governor Iqtadar => aka Muqtis or Walis

🖍️ Not hereditary, did not imply right to land => became heriditary under Feroz Shah Tughlaq

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07 Feb 2023 15:51

📍 Ferozshah Tughlaq (1351-88)

🖍️ Tarikh-i-Firozshahi

🖍️ Decline of Sultanate started

🖍️ Revived Iqta system =>made it hereditary

🖍️ Military

💥 Did not reattempt to capture Deccan

💥 Started the principle of Heredity in army and iqtas

💥 Soldiers were not paid in cash, but by land revenue of villages (Vajeha)

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01 Feb 2023 12:42

📍 5 controversial decisions

🖍️ Increase taxation in Doab (Ganga-Yamuna doab) + Agri reforms (gave cheap loans Sondhar - misused by people)

🖍️ Transfer of capital from Delhi to Daulatabad/Devagiri (to make capital in center of kingdom) and back due to water scarcity

🖍️ Token currency - brass currency (made 1 tanka = 1 jital)

🖍️ Expedition of Khorasan (central asia, Iraq) - expensive

🖍️ Kurachil Expedition (HP) -> had to cross Himalayas

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27 Jan 2023 17:02

📍 Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq (1320-25)

🖍️ Decreased Kharaj (tax) to 33%

🖍️ Irrigation work

🖍️ Tughlaqabad Fort in Delhi

🖍️ Not in good terms with Nizamuddin Auliya (Chisti saints did not like pompous life of Sultans)

🖍️ Died by accident

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17 Jan 2023 06:42

📍 Alauddin khalji Revenue admin

🖍️ Land measured, and share of state fixed => First Sultan to start measurement of Land

🖍️ Kharaj tax increased to 50%

🖍️ Diwan -i- Mustakh raj - revenue collector

🖍️ Fixed market costs of all commodities - market controlled by Shahna

🖍️ Standardised weights and measures

🖍️ Check on Market kept by 2 officers - Diwan-i-Riyasat, Shahna-iMand

🖍️ Goods sold in open market - "Sara-i-adal"

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08 Jan 2023 17:21

📍 Ghiyasuddin Balban (1266-86)

🖍️ Introduced Sajda -prostration, Paibos - Kissing king's feet

🖍️ Broke power of Chalisa (he himself was from Chalisa)

🖍️ Assumed Zill-e-ilahi (shadow of God) - Divine Theory of Kingship

🖍️ Appointed Spies

🖍️ Iron and Blood policy -> no body can oppose king

🖍️ centralized administration

🖍️ Non expansionary rule - just consolidation

🖍️ Introduced 1(Iranian New Year) as the only festival

🖍️ Estd Military dept - Diwan-i-Arz

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