[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) › c3.2 # The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c3.2 The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c3.2 - **Language:** English ### [c3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.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\*). - [Previous: c3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.1) - [Next: c3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.3) - [Up: c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c3.2) · Pramāṇa