Question

Ala-ud-din Khalji was an able administrator- Justify.

Answer 1

1. Ala-ud-din’s political and administrative reforms were as impressive.
2. Ala-ud-din undertook a survey of the agrarian resources around his capital and fixed a standard revenue demand.
3. He entrusted the task of collecting the revenue to the military officers.
4. Ala-ud-din established a system of forced procurement of food grains for Delhi and other garrison centres.
5. The procurement prices were fixed and grain collected as the tax was stored in state granaries.
6. To ensure the enforcement of his new regulations.
7. He employed spies who were responsible to report to him directly.