Question

Fawazil in the Sultanate period meant

(a) extra payment to the nobles 

(b) revenue assigned in lieu of salary 

(c) excess amount paid to the exchequer by the Iqtadars 

(d) illegal exactions extracted from the peasants

Answer 1

(c) excess amount paid to the exchequer by the Iqtadars 

Fawazil was balance between the income and expenditure of iqta-holders.