Indian Terms for Indian History Flashcards

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