Jagirdari crisis
The Jagirdari crisis (Persian: بحران جاگیرداری) is a historiographical category used to describe a chronic imbalance in the Mughal Empire's service-compensation system during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in which the number of imperial rank-holders (mansabdars) and their aggregate salary claims outran the revenue of assignable land (jagirs). The term was coined by the Indian historian M. Athar Ali in his 1966 study The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, and it has since framed much of the scholarly debate on the decline of the Mughal Empire.