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  • 2 - Zamīndārs: Lords of the Marches

  • Nandini Chatterjee, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    Negotiating Mughal Law
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 70-112
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    This chapter uses a range of records of grants and other documents of order to introduce the protagonists and to trace the story of their accmulation of entitlements related to land, agrarian revenues, and state offices. It discusses how such grants were received from emperor, princes, and nobles, as reward for a variety of services – military, fiscal, and administrative – provided to those higher authorities. As such, the protagonists are shown to be part of a ubiquitous and diverse social class, referred to in Mughal parlance as zamindars – holders of land. All this is used to show how the Mughal state was actuated and even inhabited, and turned into family property – not just at the top, but also the bottom of the regime's hierarchy.