If the peasants were squeezed by taxes to pay for the luxury of Mughal court life, it was a boon for the country's artisans goldsmiths, jewelers, and weavers.
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Even if the peasants were squeezed by taxes to pay for the luxury of  Mughal court life, the country's artisans, goldsmiths, jewelers and weaves economically benefited from the royal contracts paid for by those taxes.
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The peasants benefited from the taxes charged them to pay for the Mughal court life because it came also with Mughal interest in building charity programs and using philanthropy to redistribute the money to the most needy on public projects in peasant communities.