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Paperback The Devs of Cincvad: A Lineage and the State in Maharashtra Book

ISBN: 0521047773

ISBN13: 9780521047777

The Devs of Cincvad: A Lineage and the State in Maharashtra

(Part of the Cambridge South Asian Studies Series)

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This innovative study of the power of lineage in India across two centuries examines some of the traditional social structures which transcended so successfully the political upheavals of British rule. Under the Maratha Kingdom, the Devs occupied a privileged position in the ritual, social and economic hierarchies of the state from the 1620s onwards, their continuing influence stemming principally from obtaining grants of rent-free land around Pune...

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