HISTORY
SULTANS
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Question
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The Iqta under the Delhi Sultans was a territorial assignment, and its holder was designated muqti who
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Was the owner of the Iqta Land
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Was entitled to claim forced labor from the cultivators
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Had no claims on the peasant other than the due land tax
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Had to claim on the person and property of the peasants
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Muqtis are landowner or landholders of land given by king and iqtas are the land given by the king. Iqtas is the land area governed by the governors appointed by sultans. Muqtis may have wanted to defy the orders of the Sultans in order to exercise their control over money and military resources.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ans: The Khalji and the Tughlaq monarchs appointed military commanders as governers of territories. These land were called the Iqta and the landholders were called Iqtadars or the muqti.
Detailed explanation-3: -An Iqta holder is called an Iqtadar. Iqta was a form of tax farming prevalent in the Middle-East and Asia during the middle ages.
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