jaghir

Noun

(plural jaghirs)

A village or district in India ruled over by a jaghirdar (mayor)

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From Persian (jâgîr, “jaghir”).

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1045) he appears as financial secretary and revenue collector of the Seljuk sultan Toghrul Beg, or rather of his brother Jaghir Beg, the emir of Khorasan, who had conquered Mery in 1037.

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