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# Mughal Administration c5.s5.8

Mughal Administration c5.s5.8

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### [c5.s5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sarkar-1920.c5.s5.8)

Large empires of the mediæval stationary type of civilization and inhabited by diverse tribes, like the Chinese Empire, have held together, only because the central Government has wisely let the rural areas alone, giving to the people of each district freedom to live their lives according to immemorial usage if they supplied the fixed quota of local troops and their fixed share of the revenue of the State.

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