Mughal Administration was synonymous to Maintenance Administration. Comment.

Answer: Answer: Military administration functioning as civilian officers during peace and as military in times of war, focus on revenue collection and policing, non-interference in the local/ village level admin, land tax as the primary source of income for the empire.
Patrimonial elements with less focus on merit and no developed system of civil services. King was the real sovereign with the power to perform all the functions of the government, lacking any system of checks and balances creating an inertia in the administrative machinery to maintain status-quo.
(Conservative administrative culture prevalent in many developing countries with colonial baggage.) Concept of ‘Kaagzi Raaj’ with more focus on documentation, information collection, procedures etc., making the administration averse to decision making and use of administrative acumen.

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