3306930050 | bhakti | an approach to Hinduism characterized by a personal devotion to a Divinity | 0 | |
3306936871 | Brahman | The Varna (status category) identified in the Sanskrit tradition as the most pure and entitled to to preform priestly duties | 1 | |
3306936872 | Buddhist | followers of Gautama Buddha are called......... | 2 | |
3306939014 | dalit | The bottom of the social class | 3 | |
3306941943 | harijan | "child of God/Hari/Vishnu" | 4 | |
3306941944 | darbar | A ceremonial gathering held by a British colonial ruler, especially in India. | 5 | |
3306943468 | diwan | -(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 states | 6 | |
3306944463 | factor | A commercial agent, In the East India Company, resident in India, term 'factory' denoted a warehouse for storing trade goods | 7 | |
3306955211 | farmer | a 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 sum | 8 | |
3306955212 | hadith | a 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 Koran | 9 | |
3306955213 | imam | Muslim religious leaders that claims to be direct decedents of Muhammad | 10 | |
3306956898 | jagir | a 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 monarch | 11 | |
3306956899 | Jain | follower of Jainism | 12 | |
3306956900 | Jat | traditionally 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 faiths | 13 | |
3306959044 | Jesuit | a 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 1922 | 14 | |
3306959045 | jizya | a poll tax levied on non muslims that entitled them to protection and freed them from military service | 15 | |
3306960857 | jotedar | A revenue collecting intermediary in Bengal, between the peasant cultivator and the zamindar | 16 | |
3306960858 | Kayasth | North Indian caste group, many of whose members served from Mughal times in government, and institutions requiring literacy, accountancy, etc | 17 | |
3306964060 | Khalifa | successor, particularly used for successors of the Prophet Muhammad | 18 | |
3306969910 | Khilafat (caliphate) | 19 | ||
3306971316 | Kshatriya | 20 | ||
3306972882 | mansab | 21 | ||
3306972919 | nabob | 22 | ||
3306974815 | naib | 23 | ||
3306974816 | nawab | 24 | ||
3306976093 | Ottoman | 25 | ||
3306976094 | Pandit | 26 | ||
3306980599 | Panchayat | 27 | ||
3306983519 | Parsi | 28 | ||
3306983520 | Persian | 29 | ||
3306985037 | peshwa | 30 | ||
3306985038 | pir | 31 | ||
3306987577 | presidency | 32 | ||
3306987578 | Rajput | 33 | ||
3306988797 | raja | 34 | ||
3306991993 | sabha | 35 | ||
3306993301 | Sanskrit | 36 | ||
3306995215 | satyagraha | 37 | ||
3306996699 | Sayyid | 38 | ||
3306996700 | settlement | 39 | ||
3306999224 | Shaikh | 40 | ||
3306999225 | shari'at | 41 | ||
3307003039 | Shi'a | 42 | ||
3307005197 | Shudra | 43 | ||
3307005198 | Sikh | 44 | ||
3307006972 | sufi | 45 | ||
3307006973 | Sunni | 46 | ||
3307008303 | swadeshi | 47 | ||
3307008327 | swaraj | 48 | ||
3307010296 | 'ulama | 49 | ||
3307013859 | Vaisya | 50 | ||
3307013860 | varna | 51 | ||
3307013884 | yogi | 52 | ||
3307017076 | zamindar | 53 | ||
3307018610 | zenana | Women's quarters in an Indian Household i.e: Nana lives in the Zenana | 54 | |
3307020397 | Zoroastrian | 55 |
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