Mughal’s governance brought South Asia positive changes. Mughals entered India at the time it had a growing economy and domestic trade and founded an empire that is called one of the greatest empires.

The Mughal Empire believing in Islam was to rule a country which majority of people were not Muslims. Being aware of this demographic fact they organized their policies accordingly and succeeded to expand their territory to a great extent. They united India under one rule and left many prosperous cultural heritages for the subcontinent. The empire enjoyed ruling India in the period of 1526-1857.
Emperor was at the top of the pyramid of Mughal’s government. Moving from the top of the pyramid the second place was allocated to the nobility and mansabdars who were actually officers and ministers. The third place following mansabdars belonged to the merchants, clerk accountants and messengers and the commoners who are normal people were at the bottom of this pyramid.
The Mughal government had four departments of Diwan that was the financial and taxation department, Mir Bakshi which was the military and intelligence department, Mir Saman that includes departments of royal household, the factories, roads, stores and the trade as well as Qazi or the legal and religious matters.
The main framework of Mughal administration system, mansabdari, for collecting revenues from the agrarian sector had not been centralized. This system had forces that were given ranks by the Mughal emperor with the criteria of talent and were called mansabdars. Mansabdars could be in charge of military or civil administration. The rank of mansabdars was related to the number of men they had under their command and could present services to the empire. Subahdars were the governors of provinces who had high mansabs (ranks) and also there were zamindars or landlords below the rank of mansabdars who were in charge of collecting land revenue from the districts.
India walked out of the domestic trade and engaged in the international economy from mid seventeen century under the rule of Mughals.
Mughal empire created an economic strength for India to be more sure about its textile export rather than be dependent on the land revenue. The flexibility of their policies in the economic and political issues made India “magnet of wealth”.
Although Mughals gave the Indian merchants autonomy to some extent but the empire were not dependent on them financially, as they took benefit of the facilities provided by bankers and merchants which expanded India’s domestic economy to an extended area over Indian Ocean. Such wise policy used by Mughal empire was efficient for the improvement of economy as they used the resources in a good effective way to meet the needs of society.
At this time the trade was encouraged with the rest of Islamic world, especially Persia and through Persia to Europe.
The study of Mughal government indicates that the characteristics of governance had been changed during the rule of different emperors in India. Although some policies were held stable for long within the empire some other were converted, as there would be no exact description of the elements of governance for the whole life of empire