[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Mughal Administration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920) › c5.s3.4 # Mughal Administration c5.s3.4 Mughal Administration c5.s3.4 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c5.s3.4) This foreign element in the Mughal administration can be easily illustrated from the provincial administration. As Professor C. H. Becker of Hamburg writes: "In the early centuries of Arab rule two political functions were sharply distinguished \[in Egypt, viz.,\] the governorship and the treasury. The governor, \[called\] \*āmir\*, had control over the military and police only...Alongside of him was the head of the treasury, \[called\] the \*‘āmil\*...These two officers had to keep a strict watch on one another. As head of the military and executive, the \*amir\* was the first \[in authority\], but they were equal in rank and the administrator of the treasury even had the greater influence \[over the sovereign.\]" (\*Encyclopædia of Islam\*, ii. 13.) - [Previous: c5.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c5.s3.3) - [Next: c5.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c5.s3.5) - [Up: c5.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c5.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c5.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c5.s3.4) · Pramāṇa