Zabt (Persian: ضبط, literally "regulation" or "fixed assessment"; also rendered zabti; ; ZUBT) was the principal land revenue system of the Mughal Empire from the late sixteenth century onward. Under the system, revenue demand on cultivated land was fixed in cash on the basis of systematic measurement and regionally differentiated per-unit rates rather than on the annual share of the crop.
Zabt (Persian: ضبط, literally "regulation" or "fixed assessment"; also rendered zabti; ; ZUBT) was the principal land revenue system of the Mughal Empire from the late sixteenth century onward. Under the system, revenue demand on cultivated land was fixed in cash on the basis of systematic measurement and regionally differentiated per-unit rates rather than on the annual share of the crop.
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