The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c3.2

c3.2

*Manṣab* was not a term confined solely to the military service; every man in State employ above the position of a common soldier or messenger, whatever the nature of his duties, civil or military, obtained a *manṣab*. In fact, there were for all grades, except the very lowest, only two modes of obtaining support from State funds: a man must either enter its active service, as the holder of a *manṣab*, or he must petition for a *madad-i-muʿāsh* (literally, “help to live”), on the ground of being a student of the holy books, an attendant on a mosque (*mutawallī* or *khādim*), a man of learning and religious life (*darvesh*), a local judge (*qāẓī*), or an expounder of the Mahomedan law (*muftī*).