Meaning
Land revenue or rent paid to the state or a landlord.
Usage & notes
The Indic word for agrarian tax, central to the relationship between peasant and ruler and a recurring grievance in poetry of the oppressed cultivator.
Land revenue or rent paid to the state or a landlord.
The Indic word for agrarian tax, central to the relationship between peasant and ruler and a recurring grievance in poetry of the oppressed cultivator.