HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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What did the Devadana type of a land tenure signify?
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Villages donated to Brahmins
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Villages donated to the King
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Villages donated to the gods
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Villages not normally lived in
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Devdana means a gift(dana) to the gods(dev). Most of the Devdana lands were made tax free. The donated land mainly belonged to the temple which employed peasants to cultivate the lands and take the produced crops after making payment to the peasants.
Detailed explanation-2: -Devadanas were the lands gifted to temples by the Chola kings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Land grants given to Brahmanas were known as brahmadeya. A group of prominent Brahmana landholders formed a ‘Sabha’. They looked after brahmadeya lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -Brahmadeya (Sanskrit for “given to Brahmana") was tax free land gift either in form of single plot or whole villages donated to Brahmanas in the early medieval India.
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