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3306930050bhaktian approach to Hinduism characterized by a personal devotion to a Divinity0
3306936871BrahmanThe Varna (status category) identified in the Sanskrit tradition as the most pure and entitled to to preform priestly duties1
3306936872Buddhistfollowers of Gautama Buddha are called.........2
3306939014dalitThe bottom of the social class3
3306941943harijan"child of God/Hari/Vishnu"4
3306941944darbarA ceremonial gathering held by a British colonial ruler, especially in India.5
3306943468diwan-(in Islamic societies) a central finance department, chief administrative office, or regional governing body -a chief treasury official, finance minister, or prime minister in some Indian states6
3306944463factorA commercial agent, In the East India Company, resident in India, term 'factory' denoted a warehouse for storing trade goods7
3306955211farmera revenue term for a person who bids to secure the right to collect taxes of a given area in return for payment to the government of a fixed sum8
3306955212haditha collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad that, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran9
3306955213imamMuslim religious leaders that claims to be direct decedents of Muhammad10
3306956898jagira grant of the public revenues of a district in northern India or Pakistan to a person with power to collect and enjoy them and to administer the government in the district; also : the district so assigned, the revenue from it, or the tenure by which it is held -type of feudal land grant bestowed by a monarch11
3306956899Jainfollower of Jainism12
3306956900Jattraditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region, Delhi, Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in late medieval times.[Primarily of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths13
3306959044Jesuita member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 and devoted to missionary and educational work -evangelical preaching in India began in 192214
3306959045jizyaa poll tax levied on non muslims that entitled them to protection and freed them from military service15
3306960857jotedarA revenue collecting intermediary in Bengal, between the peasant cultivator and the zamindar16
3306960858KayasthNorth Indian caste group, many of whose members served from Mughal times in government, and institutions requiring literacy, accountancy, etc17
3306964060Khalifasuccessor, particularly used for successors of the Prophet Muhammad18
3306969910Khilafat (caliphate)19
3306971316Kshatriya20
3306972882mansab21
3306972919nabob22
3306974815naib23
3306974816nawab24
3306976093Ottoman25
3306976094Pandit26
3306980599Panchayat27
3306983519Parsi28
3306983520Persian29
3306985037peshwa30
3306985038pir31
3306987577presidency32
3306987578Rajput33
3306988797raja34
3306991993sabha35
3306993301Sanskrit36
3306995215satyagraha37
3306996699Sayyid38
3306996700settlement39
3306999224Shaikh40
3306999225shari'at41
3307003039Shi'a42
3307005197Shudra43
3307005198Sikh44
3307006972sufi45
3307006973Sunni46
3307008303swadeshi47
3307008327swaraj48
3307010296'ulama49
3307013859Vaisya50
3307013860varna51
3307013884yogi52
3307017076zamindar53
3307018610zenanaWomen's quarters in an Indian Household i.e: Nana lives in the Zenana54
3307020397Zoroastrian55

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