Who were mansabdars? How were they paid?
The Mansabdars were allotted military responsibility For this, they kept a predefined number of Sawar or cavalrymen. The Mansabdar brought his cavalrymen for audit, got them enrolled, their ponies marked, and afterward got cash to pay them as salary. The Mansabdars got their compensations as incomes called jagirs. The majority of the Mansabdars didn't dwell in or control their Jagirs. They just had rights to the income, gathered by their workers. The Mansabdari system was a grading system introduced by Akbarto to fix the rank and salary of a Mansabdar. They were nobles who enjoyed various powers in the administration of the Mughal Empire.
