GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Sultans
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Zamindars
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Sufism
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Castes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Zamindars during the Mughal era were petty landholders in the villages, descendants of old ruling families who retained small portions of their ancestral lands. These also include the rajput and other chiefs who exercised autonomous administrative authority in their principalities.
Detailed explanation-2: -The zamindars were landlords who collected rent from the peasants and paid revenue to the Company. By the terms of the permanent settlement, the rajas and taluqdars were recognised as zamindars.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the Mughal Empire, zamindars belonged to the nobility and formed the ruling class. Emperor Akbar granted them mansabs and their ancestral domains were treated as jagirs. Some zamindars were Hindu by religion and brahmin or kayastha or kshatriya by caste.