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Definition of Jagir
1. jaghir [n -S] - See also: jaghir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jagir
Literary usage of Jagir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1893)
"... has been graciously granted to you in jagir. Live there in peace. Never join
in any sedition and be on good terms with the Sirkar. ..."
2. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and ...by India Foreign and Political Dept by India Foreign and Political Dept (1893)
"jagir guaranteed to Ghafur Khan by the treaty of ... Succession to the jagir to
go to the male relatives of ..."
3. The History of India: The Hindú and Mahometan Periods by Mountstuart Elphinstone, Edward Byles Cowell (1866)
"... when it was agreed that he was to share with the king whatever conquests he
made beyond his father's jagir, and that the king was to supply him with a ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"A considerable portion of the tract is still held in jagir by the representative
of the line. East of this long Siwalik ridge, the open valley of the ..."
5. Report on the First Regular Land Revenue Settlement of the Bannu District in by Septimus Smet Thorburn (1879)
"The modification was the reduction of the one-third share in the alum proceeds
to a one-sixth share. From that time until last year the jagir consisted of ..."
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