The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c3.14

c3.14

In the following table, which shows all the manṣabs with their pay according to class, I have reduced the dām to rupees, as being simpler and more readily intelligible. In the present day, this reckoning by dāms has quite disappeared. When reading this table of pay, which shows the sanctioned allowances for a year of twelve months, it must be remembered that few of the officers received the whole twelve-months' pay, the number of month's pay sanctioned per annum ranging from four to twelve. Officers were also supposed te keep up an establishment of elephants and draught cattle. Apparently they were also liable to pay a fixed quota of their own allowances towards the expenses of the Emperor's elephants and cattle, an item known as khūrāk-i-dawābb, feed of four-footed animals. There were other petty deductions.