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(a )No. of Sawar = the No. of Zat. => 1st Class Mansabdar (b)No. of Sawar > 1/2 the No. of Zat => 2nd Class Mansabdar (c)No. of Sawar < Less than 1/2 the No. of Zat => 3rd Class Mansabdar Mansabdars were graded on the number of armed cavalrymen, or sowars, which each had to maintain for service in the imperial army.
Mansabs were of three classes, 7,000 to 3,000 were called Amir-i-Azam or "the greater nobles"; 2,500 to 500 were called Amirs or nobles and 400 to 20 were called Mansabdars or officers. It is from the world Amir that the family title came to be.
The rank of Mansabdars were based on the horsemen he provided, which ranged from 10(the lowest), up to 5000. A prince had the rank of 25000. [179] Their salary pays also based on their ranks. [180] [181] Each Mansabdars were held in responsible by the Mir Bakshi, or the head of Mughal empire's office of military and intelligence administrations.
The mansabdars were divided into 33 classes. The top three commanding ranks, ranging from 7,000 to 10,000 troops, were normally reserved for princes. Ranks between 10 and 5,000 were assigned to other members of the nobility.
The offices were introduced during the reign of Mughal emperor Akbar. Bakhshis were found in both the central and provincial administration; the most notable kind of bakhshi was the mir bakhshi , one of the empire's four ministers, broadly in charge of administering the mansabdari system (and the military therein).
Mughal ranks included the Nawab, Subahdar, Mansabdar, Sawar and Sepoy. Mughal princes were often given the titles of Mir and Mirza. Subahdar, also known as Nazim, [1] was one of the designations of a governor of a Subah (province) during the Khalji dynasty of Bengal, Mamluk dynasty, Khalji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty, and the Mughal era who was alternately designated as Sahib-i-Subah or Nazim.
During the reigns of the Mughal emperors Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb, Dogra relations with the Mughals had pacified, with the vansavali recording that Rajas Bhup Dev (r. 1624–1650) and Raja Hari Dev (r. 1650–1686) were employed as mansabdars by the Mughals. [14]
The Nawab of Awadh or Nawab of Oudh / ˈ aʊ d / was the title of the rulers of Kingdom of Awadh (anglicised as Oudh) in northern India during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Nawabs of Awadh belonged to an Iranian dynasty [1] [2] [3] of Sayyid origin [4] [5] from Nishapur, Iran.