Year: 2013
Type: book
Abstract: Bhil, Bhilla Name of a number of tribes and quasi-caste groups in central India Dalit Downtrodden, oppressed.Name now current for traditionally lowest-status castes as a whole; groups officially termed "Scheduled Castes" in the Republic of India deśmukh Hereditary chief of a large village cluster (pargana q.v.).Equivalent of the pargana caudhurī in north India and the manḍloi in central India deśpānḍe Hereditary registrar of a pargana; equivalent to the qānungo in north India Gūjar Sometimes Sanskritized to Gurjara.Widespread cluster of peasant castes traditionally associated with pastoral agriculture Jāṭ, Jaṭ Peasant; name collectively applied to families belonging to a cluster of peasant castes found across northern India and Pakistan.May be of any religion Jāti, jāt Common term for endogamous social group; usually translated as 'caste' .Members could be of any religion Kāyastha Scribe; name of cluster of Hindu castes associated with government administration Khūm Stable, corporate body of any religion; usually based on descent.Might be occupational and/or endogamous.Derived from qaum (q.v).Also found written as 'kom' Kolī Name of a caste cluster; in Gujarat associated with small farming and military service; in Maharashtra often fishermen or water-carriers.Kuṇbī Farmer; name widely used by various cultivating castes in western India; now dropped by many of them.Mahār Caste of village servants, laborers, watchmen and soldiers, in the Marathi-speaking areas of western India; name of an Indian Army regiment raised in 1941 Marāṭhā A regionally dominant landowning peasant community; speakers of the Marathi language.nāḍgauḍā Hereditary pargana chief; equivalent of deśmukh nāḍkaraṇī Hereditary pargana record-keeper; equivalent of deśpānḍe Paṭhān Collective name of a group of tribes on the Afghan-Pakistan border; widely adopted among Indian Muslims.Sometimes a dominant landed elite with some preference for endogamy Pargana Village cluster organized as tax-unit with hereditary officials.Sometimes possessing considerable fiscal, judicial and military autonomy Peśvā/Peshwa Dynasty of powerful hereditary ministers who became independent sovereigns c. 1750-1818 puḍkā Small bundle; archival term for a series of papers tied with thread and sorted into rumāl-s (q.v.)
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: Sumit Guha
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4242575953