Historicity

During Mughal India Zaminadar the idiom covered wide range of local land rights assuming the position of local rajas. These rights were also hereditary. So far in Maharashtra the term Zamindar related to local hereditary officials who were called Deshmukh

• Development Of Feudalism
• Medieval Bhaor Ande Velhe
• local community

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2. Thakur Vijay Kumar Op.Cit.p.89
3. Wink Andre Op.Cit. p.189
4. Wink Andre Land and Sovereignty in India Cambridge University Press 1986 p.183
5. Fukujhawa Hiroshi Medieval Deccan Oxford University Press 1991 pp.11-12
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7. Fukjwas Op.Cit. pp.38-39
8. Winke Andre Op.Cit. p.183
9. Andre wink p.186
10. Op.Cit.p.185
11. Rajwade V.K. Collections et al Deshpane P.N. reprinted Rajwade Sanshodan Mandal Dhule 2002 pp.1-13 & 91-96
12. Fukujhwa Op.Cit. p.148
13. Thakur Vijay Kumar 'Historiography of Indian Feudalism Towards a model of early medieval Indian economy' Commonwealth publishers New Delhi 1989 pp. Introduction 2-3
14. Mukhia Harban et al 'The feudalism debate' Manohar New Delhi 1999 pp.237 & 258
15. Patil Sharad 'Caste feudal Servitude' Malvai Prakashan' Shrirur Pune 2006 p.19
16. Ibid loc.Cit.
17. Thakur Vijaykumar ' Histriography of Indian feudalism towards the model of early Medieval Indian Economy' Commonwealth Publishers New Delhi 1989 p.87