Iqta Feudal Land-Grant System

Timeline

1. 1210–1260Delhi · DelhiSultan Iltutmish integrated scattered military fiefs into a verifiable iqta grant system, requiring iqta'dar to collect kharaj land tax according to registers and maintain cavalry, strengthening central control over local finances.
2. 1296–1300Delhi Sultanate · IndiaAfter accession, Ala al-Din Khalji reorganized iqta allocation, strengthened tax remittance and army provisioning ratios, and limited hereditary tendencies of local iqta'dar, making the grant system serve central military mobilization more directly; this node's time range fully overlaps the target years 1291-1300.
3. 1320–1707North India and the Deccan · IndiaTughluq sultans further standardized iqta documents and audits; the Mughal Empire retained similar land-revenue logic but reorganized allocation under the name jagir, and iqta as an institutional term gradually faded from administrative practice.