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Who owned India's land? The three revenue experiments that broke the peasant
Bengal's tax-collectors became landlords, Madras dealt directly with the peasant, the north taxed whole villages. Three revenue experiments, one verdict: the peasant paid for the empire.
The Empire's Operating System: Mansabdars, Jagirs and the Revenue Machine
One rank decided every officer's salary and cavalry strength; one revenue grid taxed every harvest. How the mansabdari and zabt systems let the Mughals run a subcontinent.