HISTORY
MEDIAVAL INDIA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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building up a large and contented army with small salaries
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the general welfare of the people
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both A and B above
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curbing dishonest merchants and traders
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alauddin Khilji unbendingly authorized ‘market control’ or financial guidelines for shaping up a larger and satisfying army with lesser salaries and curbing merchants and traders who were dishonest. So both options A and B are above correct. So, the correct answer is Option C.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Barani, Alauddin set up three markets at Delhi, first for food-grains, the second for cloth and expensive items such as sugar, ghee, oil, dry fruits etc., and the third for horses, slaves and cattle. Detailed regulations (zawabit) were framed for the control and administration for all these markets.
Detailed explanation-3: -To maintain a large army economically: Alauddin Khilji had a large army which was not easy to maintain on normal revenues of the state, to resolve this, he came up with market reforms to curb the prices of the commodities.