Mughal Administration c5.s4.3

c5.s4.3

It will thus be seen that the imperial Government had to keep a vast stock of cloth and ready-made robes for its need during the year. Their supply was assured by the State maintaining many factories (*kārkhānahs*) of its own in the principal cities of the empire, where skilled workmen were brought together (sometimes from distant provinces), placed under a Government superintendent (*dārogha*), paid daily wages, and made to produce their handicrafts which were duly stocked in the stores.