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Critics of feudalism have complained of a culture of feudal impunity, where local police will refuse to pursue charges against an influential landowning family even when murder or mayhem have been committed; [6] [8] of abuse of power by some landlords who may place enemies in "private prisons" and "enslave" local people through debt bondage; [1] the harming of progress and prosperity by ...
Iqtas were given for exceptional military service or loyalty and were, unlike the original, usually hereditary. The Iqta' system was later reorganized by Balban, who divided his empire into small pieces of land and opposed making Iqta hereditary. His absolutist rule concentrated on limiting the power of the estates (mainly the nobility and ...
From 1957 to 2025, the holder of the title was the 49 th hereditary Imām, Prince Shah Karim al-Husseini, Aga Khan IV (1936–2025). The current holder of the title is the 50 th hereditary Imām, Prince Shah Rahim al-Husseini Aga Khan, The Aga Khan V since 4 th February 2025.
Hereditary politicians refers to politicians (especially modern politicians) whose political position can be seen as being conferred by or based on inheritance from a parent or grandparent in some sense. It should not be confused with political dynasty though these two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Political dynasty or political family ...
A jagir was technically a feudal life estate, as the grant reverted to the state upon the jagirdar's death.However, in practice, jagirs became a hereditary position. [10] [11] The family was thus the de facto ruler of the territory, earned income from part of the tax revenues and delivered the rest to the treasury of the state during the Islamic rule period, and later in parts of India that ...
Aab-e hayat (Urdu: آبِ حیات, lit. water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880. [1] The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." [1] [2] The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu ...
Inheritance: the hereditary transfer of titles, property, or assets from parent to offspring (or other beneficiary) A synonym for bloodline; for other uses of the term, see Bloodline (disambiguation) Hereditary property, in mathematics, a property of objects inherited by all their subobjects; Heredity, a scientific journal
Chowdhury (also: Choudhuri, Chaudhuri, Choudhury, Chaudhri, Chaudhary) is a title of honour, usually hereditary, originating from the Indian subcontinent. [1] It is an adaption from Sanskrit . During the Mughal rule , it was a title awarded to eminent people, while during British rule , the term was associated with zamindars and social leaders.