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Describe village polity and economy of medieval Deccan.

  • UPSC 2020
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

The medieval Deccan village — known locally as gaon or uru, and recorded in official Persian usage as mauze or deh — was a largely self-regulating unit of governance and production, absorbed into the wider Bahmani-successor and Vijayanagara polities chiefly through revenue obligation rather than direct administration.

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  • The Village as a Territorial and Revenue Unit
  • Institutions of Self-Governance: Got Sabha and Majlis
  • Hereditary Officers and the Watan System
  • Land Tenure Categories
  • Caste and the Balutedari Service Economy
  • Temples as Institutions of the Rural Economy
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