[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903) › c3.24 # The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c3.24 The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c3.24 - **Language:** English ### [c3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.24) That is, with 1000 men there would be 2000 horses. The pay of the men with the extra horses was higher, but not in proportion. Thus, a one-horsed man received 8000 D. or Rs. 200 a year (Rs. 16 10a. 8p. per mensem), while the two- or three-horsed man got 11,000 D. or Rs. 275 a year (Rs. 22 14a. 8p. per mensem). In some places we find other rates of pay recorded. For instance, Bahādur Shāh enlisted Aḥadīs, men a little superior to common soldiers, at Rs. 40 a month (Dānishmand Khān, second Ṣafar of the second year, i. e. 1120 H. = 22nd April 1708). A century later, as Fitzclarence tells us, “Journal,” 73, 142, the rate was Rs. 40 a month in the Dakhin, and R. 22 in Hindūstān. Service in the cavalry was socially an honourable profession; thus a common trooper was looked on as being, to some extent, a gentleman, and such men, even when illiterate, often rose to the highest positions. - [Previous: c3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.23) - [Next: c3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.25) - [Up: c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.24) · Pramāṇa