Paper I · 10 History of Telangana & the Statehood Movement · 10.3 Asaf Jahis and the Nizam's Hyderabad

10.3.3 Society under the Nizams: jagirdars, deshmukhs, vetti and bhagela, and the condition of women

Rural Telangana under the Nizams was a feudal order: the state owned only part of the land, the rest went to the Nizam's own estate, nobles' jagirs and old samsthans, and hereditary deshmukhs and village doras extracted unpaid labour (vetti) and debt bondage (bhagela) from lower castes, while women faced purdah, child marriage and the jogini and aadapapa customs, until reform movements, revolt and the abolition of jagirs in 1949 broke the system.

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Key terms

  • diwani
  • khalsa
  • sarf-e-khas
  • jagir
  • paigah
  • Asman Jahi
  • Khurshid Jahi
  • Viqar-ul-Umra
  • samsthanam
  • peshkash
  • inam
  • maqta
  • ijara
  • pattedar
  • shikmidar
  • asami-shikmi
  • deshmukh
  • deshpande
  • watandar
  • patel
  • patwari
  • dora
  • gadi
  • balutedar
  • vetti
  • begar
  • bhagela
  • aadapapa
  • jogini
  • devadasi
  • tawaif
  • purdah
  • child marriage
  • kanyashulkam
  • Mah Laqa Bai Chanda
  • Sarojini Naidu
  • Sughra Humayun Mirza
  • Mahbubia girls school
  • Osmania University Women's College
  • Jagir abolition 15 August 1949
  • Hyderabad Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act 1950
  • Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976

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