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from one place to another, buying goods and scale for the locals and for export. The Mughal
selling them. They also organised the transport of Emperors established workshops in which
goods to other places. craftsmen, practicing different crafts, worked.
Craftsmen made goods of different kinds. While They produced goods for the emperor and the
the sultan and nobles wanted luxury goods, royal household. Craftsmen in towns and villages
cotton and silk textiles were produced on a large made a variety of goods for such commercial
exchange.

Terminology

Prominent : important or famous
Apprentices : a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer
Cosmopolitan : including people from many different countries

Inside Story
Inside Story
g Court towns were the politically important and comparatively bigger towns of the country.
g Surat, Nagapattinam, Broach are among some of the prominent ports of that period.
g Temples were central to the economy and society of that particular region as they performed
a large number of functions.
g A commercial town developed as a result of the products found in that region or because of
its nearness to ports or major trade routes.
g The city of Surat was cosmopolitan as people of all castes and creeds lived there.

g The Mughal Emperors established workshops in which craftsmen, practicing different crafts,
worked.

A. Tick (3) the correct option.
1. The famous court towns were:

(a) Delhi (b) Agra (c) Both (a) & (b)

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