HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Which of the following forms of land tenure denoted an entire village being donated to Brahmins?
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Jagir
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Zamindari
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Brahmadeya
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Devadana
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. Land grants to Brahmans played a signicant role in the legitimation of political power and had a signicant impact on agrarian relations. They buttressed the position of rulers. There was an agrarian expansion in various pans of the subcontinent and rural societies became increasingly stratied.
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