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Write short essay on Applicability of the term ‘Indian Feudalism’ to early Medieval society.
- UPSC 2009
- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
Feudalism, as a category, was coined to describe a specific European institutional complex — personal vassalage sealed by an oath of fealty, a fief granted in return for defined military service, and a manorial economy in which the lord's demesne was worked by legally unfree peasants. When historians apply the label "Indian Feudalism" to the…
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- The European Template Being Invoked
- R.S. Sharma's Case for Applicability
- The Case Against: Where the Analogy Strains
- Judgement: A Qualified, Not Literal, Applicability
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