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Discuss the different stages of India feudalism and analyze its impact on Indian political system, (in about 150 words).

  • UPSC 2021
  • Early Medieval India, 750-1200

The Indian feudalism thesis is not a claim about a single, fixed condition but about a process that unfolded in identifiable stages between roughly the fourth and thirteenth centuries, each stage altering the relationship between the Crown and its intermediaries in a specific and cumulative way — before a final stage set that process into…

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  • Stage One: Religious Land Grants and the Gupta-Era Foundations (c. Fourth–Seventh Century)
  • Stage Two: Secular and Administrative Grants (c. Seventh–Tenth Century)
  • Stage Three: Proprietary Rights and Sub-Infeudation (c. Tenth–Twelfth Century)
  • Stage Four: Political Centralisation and the Unwinding of the Feudal Order (Thirteenth Century Onward)
  • Cumulative Impact on the Indian Political System

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