{"id":133213,"date":"2023-03-03T11:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=133213"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:37:45","slug":"examine-the-ways-in-which-panchayats-regulated-mughal-rural-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/examine-the-ways-in-which-panchayats-regulated-mughal-rural-society","title":{"rendered":"Examine the ways in which panchayats regulated Mughal rural society."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question 12:Examine the ways in which panchayats regulated Mughal rural society.<\/h2>\n<h3>The correct answer is -i. The village panchayat was an assembly of elders with hereditary<br \/>\nrights over their property.<br \/>\nii. the panchayat was usually a heterogeneous body.<br \/>\niii. An oligarchy, the panchayat represented various castes and<br \/>\ncommunities<br \/>\niv. The decisions made by panchayats were binding on the members.<br \/>\nv. The panchayat was headed by a headman known as muqaddam<br \/>\nor mandal<br \/>\nvi. The headman was chosen through the consensus of the village<br \/>\nelders, and that this choice had to be ratified by the zamindar<br \/>\nvii. Headmen held office as long as they enjoyed the confidence of the<br \/>\nvillage elders, failing which they could be dismissed by them.<br \/>\nviii. The chief function of the headman was to supervise the<br \/>\npreparation of village accounts, assisted by the accountant or<br \/>\npatwari of the panchayat.<br \/>\nix. The panchayat derived its funds from contributions made by<br \/>\nindividuals to a common financial pool.<br \/>\nx. Panchayat ensured that caste boundaries among the various<br \/>\ncommunities inhabiting the village were upheld.<br \/>\nxi. Panchayats also had the authority to levy fines and inflict more<br \/>\nserious forms of punishment like expulsion from the community.<br \/>\nxii. Any other relevant point<br \/>\nAny eight points to be explained<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 12:Examine the ways in which panchayats regulated Mughal rural society. The correct answer is -i. The village panchayat was an assembly of elders with hereditary rights over their property. ii. the panchayat was usually a heterogeneous body. iii. An oligarchy, the panchayat represented various castes and communities iv. The decisions made by panchayats were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":132941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133215,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133213\/revisions\/133215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}