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In accounts of concessions encouraging merchants to settle in the kasbas of Marwar, exemption from which transit or sales levies facilitated trade?
(a) Sair-dam
(b) Muqata
(c) Mapa-dam
(d) Rahdari
Select the correct answer.

The correct answer is

(a), (c) and (d)

(a), (c) and (d). Sair-dam, mapa-dam and rahdari are listed as transit or sales levies from which merchants received exemptions. The concession was their remission or reduction; imposing the levies was not itself a free-trade facility.

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