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जागीर् (jAgIr)

 
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
jāgīr (EI 33
BL), Persian
a fief
a tenure under
Muhammadan rule, in which the public revenues of a given
tract of land were made over, either conditionally or uncondi-
tionally, to persons like a servant of the State together with
the powers required to enable them to collect and appropriate
such revenues and administer the general government of the
tract. Cf. Wilson's Glossary. See Jāgīrdār.