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‖ jaghire E. Ind.|dʒɑːˈgɪə(r)|
Also 7 jahghir, jaggea, jageah, 8 jaguir(e, -ere, jagghire, 9 jaghir, -eer, jagir, -eer, (jagier, jahgeer).
[a. Urdū (Pers.) jāgīr, f. jā place + gīr holding, holder.]
An assignment of the king's or government's share of the produce of a district to a person or body of persons, as an annuity, either for private use or for the maintenance of a public (esp. military) establishment; also, the district so assigned, or the income derived from it.
1684J. Phillips tr. Tavernier's Voy., etc. II. 70 The lands in the Kingdom being the King's propriety..are given..as benefices which they call Jah-ghirs to men of the militia for their pay or pension [etc.]. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 120 Being in the Jaggea or Diocess of another. Ibid. 134 Were the ways free, it would enrich his Jageah beyond the Bunder at Surat. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) II. Gloss., Jaguirs,..lands assigned to governors. 1764Newcastle Chron. No. i. 2/1 Lord Clive..is..to have the payment which have been stopped of his jaghire. 1778Foote Nabob i. i, Should it be more agreeable to the parties, Sir Matthew will settle upon Sir John and his Lady, for their joint lives, a jagghire. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr. 291/2 This is the head town of a pergunnah of eight lacks of rupees, held in jaghire from the Peshwa. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 146 The revenue of the college [was] fixed at 30,000 rupees per annum, instead of the original jaghir. 1897Ld. Roberts 41 Yrs. India lxviii. (1898) 533 Jagirs were sanctioned annually for a limited number of specially distinguished native officers.
attrib.1763Scrafton Indostan (1770) 24 The Jaghire lands, which are lands bestowed by the crown out of its demesnes to the Omrahs, for the support of their forces. 1801R. Patton Asiat. Mon. 203 The jagheer grants of the sovereign form an additional proof of his proprietary rights. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. v. 188 The collector in the jaghire district at Madras.
Hence ‖ jaghirdar |dʒɑːˈgɪədɑː(r)|. [Urdū jāgīrdār, f. jāgīr + Pers. -dār possessor.] The holder of a jaghire.
1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XV. 385 The jaghirdars, the holders of jaghires, form the body of the principal Mahometan nobility. 1872Colin Valentine in Mem. Mrs. Valentine vii. (1882) 114 It makes me one of the Jagirdars of the Rajah. |