According to the passage, the surviving imperial commands concerning the…

Concept

Literal-comprehension questions use information explicitly stated in the passage.

The method is to match the fact asked in the stem to the exact term in the passage and avoid substituting a modern or inferred label.

Application

The passage states that extant farmans, glossed as imperial commands, show that the final price for the Taj Mahal site remained unsettled until almost two years after construction began. Thus, farman is the passage’s name for the surviving imperial commands connected with that land purchase.

Contrast

• A sale deed is a modern legal instrument recording a sale, but that expression does not appear in the passage.

• Sale-purchase deed is likewise not the term used in the passage.

• None of these conflicts with the passage because it explicitly names farmans.

Cross-check

The parenthetical gloss imperial commands immediately follows farmans, so both the wording and meaning point to Farman.

Therefore, the answer is Farman.