Correct Answer - Option 4 : (a) - (iv), (b) - (i), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iii)
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List – I
(Author)
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List – II
(Book)
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(a)
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Ibn Hasan
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(i)
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The Central Structure of the
Mughal Empire
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(b)
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P. Saran
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(ii)
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The Provincial Government of the Mughals
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(c)
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Moreland
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(iii)
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India at the Death of Akbar
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(d)
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M. Athar Ali
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(iv)
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The Mughal Nobility Under
Aurangzeb
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The Central Structure of the Mughal Empire is authored by historian Ibn Hasan was published in the year 1936; the author was a Reader at the Osmania University, Hyderabad and passed away in the year 1935. This work of his was published posthumously. This work studies and documents the administrative structure of the Mughal Empire under its different emperors and provides to its reader an institutional history of the Empire.
W.H. Moreland wrote India at the Death of Akbar, An Economic Study. It was published in the year 1974. This work by Moreland becomes an important source in the study of the Indian economic system in the 17
th century and the author states that the reason for studying the state of the Indian economy is important as this was the time exactly before the Europeans come into India and begin the slow and eventual changes which later take shape of colonialism and results in economic ramification of a different kind.
M. Athar Ali’s work “The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb” was published in 1966, studies the imperial structure of administration under Emperor Aurangzeb and examines the composition of nobility and their role in the centralized Mughal Empire.
The Provinical Government of the Mughals was published in 1974 and is authored by Paratma Saran is a study of the institutions of the Mughal Empire. It studies not only the components of the political organization but also the socio-cultural institutions of the empire.
Hence the correct order is - a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii.