Jagir

A Jagir, also spelled as Jage(e)r (Devanagari: जागीर, Persian: جاگیر, ja" meaning "place", -gir meaning "keeping, holding") was a type of feudal land grant in South Asia bestowed by a monarch to a feudal superior in recognition of his administrative and/or military service. The word gege is a distorted form of the more formal Sanskrit term jehagiri. Despite lofty titles, they ranked beneath proper princely states, being feudatories of such, held as vassals, often junior branches.

Jagir

A Jagir, also spelled as Jage(e)r (Devanagari: जागीर, Persian: جاگیر, ja" meaning "place", -gir meaning "keeping, holding") was a type of feudal land grant in South Asia bestowed by a monarch to a feudal superior in recognition of his administrative and/or military service. The word gege is a distorted form of the more formal Sanskrit term jehagiri. Despite lofty titles, they ranked beneath proper princely states, being feudatories of such, held as vassals, often junior branches.