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Do the evidences of land ownership at our disposal support the theory of the prevalence of feudalism in early medieval India?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Early Medieval India, 750-1200

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The debate over Indian feudalism ultimately rests on a narrower, testable question: what do the surviving land-grant inscriptions actually record about who held rights over land — the king's claim to eminent domain, the donee's acquired rights, or the cultivator's customary occupancy? The epigraphic record turns out to be layered rather than singular, recording several…

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  • The King's Theoretical Eminent Domain
  • Types of Grant-Settlements and What Their Titles Reveal
  • The Donee's Rights: From Usufruct to Proprietorship
  • The Cultivator's Customary Rights
  • Does This Evidence Actually Support "Feudalism"? Historians Divide
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