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Those Mansabdars who were paid through cash were called Jagirdars.

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The above statement is false.
Those Mansabdars who received their pay in cash were known as Naqdi.
The clients who joined the Mughal services were called Mansabdars. Their pay came in the form of revenue assignments known as jagirs. In reality, mansabdars did not govern or live in their jagirs. While the mansabdars personally served in certain other regions of the nation, they only had rights to the income from their assignments that were collected for them by their subordinates. Rank-based pay was given to the Mansabdars. They received a respectable wage. Those Mansabdars who received their pay in cash were known as Naqdi. Jagirdars were Mansabdars who received payment in the form of land (Jagirs).
The above statement would be Those Mansabdars who were paid through cash were called Naqdi.

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