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Mansabdars were more like military administrators than feudal lords, and often received a salary beyond land revenues share. I don't know if there's an equivalent episode in western history. The system unraveled and backslid to jagirdari under later emperors.
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Akbar was the strongest of the Mughal emperors. But mansabdari was viewed as one of his rare mis-steps that kinda doomed the empire, since it turned multigenerational land-owner loyalty into 1-gen rent-seeking.
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