Glossary

• jagir

  rights to collect taxes from a certain area as payment for imperial services and associated expenses

• jagirdar

  holder of rights to collect taxes from a certain area as payment for his/her services and expenses

  usually also a mansabdar

• jamadar

  commander of a body of troops

• jamedari

  office of a jamadar

  may also correspond to dues paid to soldiers hired to protect crops from invading armies

• jiu

  an honorific added to a name or title to show respect

• Julahi

  a weaver, the weaver caste