MEANING

• brave royal person

• title of a Rajput Noble whose grandfather is still alive

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• the court; occassionally applied to the Ruler himself

• decessedit sine prole legitimatis i.e. died without legitimate issue

• decessedit sine prole masculine i.e. died without male issue

• decessedit vita patris sine prole i.e. died in the lifetime of his father without issue

• literally cushion, meaning the throne or rulership

• His Exalted Highness, title created for the Nizam of Hyderabad

• His (or Her) Highness, title granted to rulers of salute states or their wives

• a Persian word meaning int jam, first used by the Mughals for estate holders of Ajmer in Rajasthan. see also Thikanedar

• a medieval system of assigning land and its rent as annuity to state functionaries. Jagir is a Persian term meaning land assigned. Because of tardy communication and a barter economy, the Muslim rulers of Bengal, and also of India, had evolved a system of paying their officers, particularly those who were stationed in remote places of the kingdom in the form of assignments of land, the rentals of which were treated as their remuneration and also paid for the cost of their establishments. With the departure or death of the incumbent, the state normally resumed the jagir and settled it with the next incumbent. Besides the regular jagirs for officialdom the rulers also granted jagir tenures to favoured state grandees for their maintenance and these were enjoyed either for life or were hereditary.

• compensation given to Jagirdars at Independence

• suffix for elders or important people like "Gandhi"ji (in hindi/urdu)

• title for a son of a living Rajput Noble

• son of a Khan

• medieval practice of honouring people with a ceremonial robe. Khilat is an Arabic word meaning dress, particularly of the people of rank and status. The Mughals made it an aristocratic institution by way of recognising ceremoniously, loyal and efficient subjects with robes of honour.

• great, used in front of titles, e.g. Maharaja = great king

• title used by collateral descendants of a princely state, particularly in Rajasthan

• title of the ruler of Chitral state

• title used predominantly for the non ruling members in the hill states

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• throne (Muslim)

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• son of a Nawab

• title of the ruler of Hyderabad

• equivalent to wazir

• A string of villages made a pargana under the sultans. For administrative convenience the parganas were grouped into dasturs or areas having some common customs and usage as regards rights and liabilities of various interests in land.

• money the princes received from the government after giving up their raj .

• Queen mother

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• King cf.Rani

• King

• King

• King

• King

• dating system in use in India

• an official term used in Mughal administration expressing the authority, original or delegated, to confer a privilege, make a grant, give diploma and issue a charter or a patent. It is also a state-recognised document granting on an individual or institution titles, offices, privileges, etc. Normally a sanad granted by the emperor who requires obedience from all and sundry was called a farman.

• respectful address for a Sikh or a noble in Rajasthan

• literally means One and a Quarter

• one can use it to show respect

• son of a Shah

• equivalent to Mister

• Noble

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• title for a Rajput Noble whose father is dead

• a grant of land, the revenue of which belonged to the grantee, but not the land itself cf. jagir

• holder of a Thikana

• Heir Apparent (predominantly in the Hill States), also Tikkaraja and Tikka Sahib

• Noble

• Heir Apparent (Hindu)

• a land holder or landlord