UPSC CDS GS History Questions Part 1

With regard to the nature of the Mughal State, Irfan Habib argued that ‘the peculiar feature of the State in Mughal India was that it served not merely as the protective arm of the exploiting classes, but was itself the principal instrument of exploitation’. Irfan Habib was a historian of the ancient and medieval India, who followed the approach of Marxist historiography.