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What were the privileges granted to the donees in land-grant charters of early India? How far were these charters responsible for integration or disintegration of socio-political milieu?
- UPSC 2014
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
Land-grant charters are not merely records of piety; each copper-plate is, in effect, a miniature constitution transferring a bundle of fiscal, administrative and sometimes judicial rights from the crown to a private beneficiary, and the cumulative effect of thousands of such transfers across half a millennium is precisely what divides historians on whether the institution…
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- Origins and Range of Beneficiaries
- Privileges Conferred on the Donee
- The Integration–Disintegration Debate
- View One: Grants as the Root of Disintegration
- View Two: Grants as an Integrative, State-Building Tool
- Assessment
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