Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v1.c18.s1.48

v1.c18.s1.48

Rājputs in the Imperial Service.—Of the four hundred and sixteen Mansabdars, or military commanders of Akbar’s empire, from leaders of two hundred to ten thousand men, forty-seven were Rajputs, and the aggregate of their quotas amounted to fifty-three thousand horse :⁴ exactly one-tenth of the united Mansabdars of the empire, or five hundred and thirty thousand horse.⁵ The forty-seven Rajput leaders, there were seventeen whose mansabs were from one thousand to five thousand horse, and thirty from two hundred to one thousand.