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Use of the term feudalism to describe India applies a concept of medieval European origin, according to which the landed nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in ...
A feudatory state in Rajputana, northern India. Issued five stamps with values of 1 ⁄ 4 or 1 anna. The last issue was released in 1901 and the stamps became obsolete towards the end of 1902. [4] Bamra: 1888 1894 A feudatory state in the Central Provinces. Issued forty stamps with values ranging from 1 ⁄ 4 anna to 1 rupee. The last issue was ...
The Orissa Tributary States, also known as the Gadajats (ଗଡ଼ଜାତ) [1] and as the Orissa Feudatory States, [2] were a group of princely states of British India now part of the present-day Indian state of Odisha.
Chamba was a princely state in the Himalayas, located in present-day Himachal Pradesh state of northern India (32.57 N 76.13 E). [6] A rural Hill state under the political control of the British Government of the Punjab, it was situated between the territories of Kashmir and the Punjab districts of Kangra and Gurdaspur. Chamba State had a ...
The position of a Samanta was also acquired by marrying into the ruling family. An example is Baliraja of Chaughan Rajasthanakot of Jumla who was made a Samanta Raja of the state after he married the daughter of Medinivarma who was the heiress of Semja. After marriage, Baliraja was virtually the head of all feudatory chiefs of the kingdom.
The Polygar Wars were a series of wars fought by a coalition of Palaiyakkarar's against the British between 1798 and 1805. The war between the British and Veerapandiya Kattabomman is often classified as the First Polygar War (1799), while the Second Polygar War (1800–1805) against the British was fought by a much bigger coalition over the whole of western Tamil Nadu headed by Dheeran ...
He was the British resident in the state of Hyderabad in 1875–81. He tutored and protected Maḥbūb ʻAlī Khān , the underage nizam (ruler). Thomas Henry Thornton , Meade's biographer and author of General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India (1898), regarded this position as one of the most politically ...
However, some naduvazhi were feudatory chiefs, former kings whose territory had been taken over by, for example, the Zamorins of Calicut. In these instances, although they were obeisant to the rajah they held a higher ritual rank than the Zamorin as a consequence of their longer history of government; they also had more power than the vassal ...