[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) › c6.4 # The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c6.4 The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c6.4 - **Language:** English ### [c6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c6.4) \*Duties of the Bakhshī-ul-mamālik.\* — These duties comprised the recruiting of the army; maintaining a list of \*manṣabdārs\* with their postings, showing (1) officers at Court, (2) officers in the provinces; keeping a roster of the guard-mounting at the palace; preparing the rules as to grants of pay (\*tankhwāh\*); keeping up a list of officers paid in cash, and an abstract of the total pay-bills; the superintendence of the mustering for branding and verifying the troopers’ horses and the orders subsidiary thereto; the preparation of the register of absentees, with or without leave, of deaths, and dismissals, of cash advances, of demands due from officers (\*muṭālibah\*), of sureties produced by officers, and the issue of written orders (\*dastak\*) to officers sent on duty into the provinces.¹ One special duty belonging to the \*Bakhshī\* was, in preparation for a great battle, to assign posts to the several commanders in the van, centre, wings, or rearguard. The \*Bakhshī\* was also expected on the morning of a battle to lay before the emperor a present state or muster roll, giving the exact number of men under each commander in each division of the fighting line. - [Previous: c6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c6.3) - [Next: c6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c6.5) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.irvine-1903.c6.4) · Pramāṇa