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What were ‘Brahmdeya’ grants? How do you account for the large number of such grants in the early medieval period?
- UPSC 2022
- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
A brahmadeya was a specific and narrow category of land grant — land, whether individual plots or an entire village, given away tax-free to a Brahmana or a group of Brahmanas, converting them from mere ritual specialists into landowners and land-controllers in their own right. Their sheer proliferation across the early medieval centuries was never…
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- Defining the Institution
- Accounting for the Proliferation: Political Legitimation
- Accounting for the Proliferation: Opening Forest and Tribal Tracts
- Accounting for the Proliferation: Competitive Prestige Among Dynasties
- Accounting for the Proliferation: The Puranic and Dharmashastric Ideology of Dana
- Resistance the Legitimating Ideology Could Not Fully Suppress
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