So Rajput are sorta landholding warrior clans and Zamindari is a type of feudalism? Am I getting it right?

The tweet .

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    2 years ago

    "Typically hereditary, zamindars held enormous tracts of land and control over their peasants, from whom they reserved the right to collect tax on behalf of imperial courts or for military purposes."

    One of the banned traditions / sacrifices :

    Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 is a law enacted by Government of Rajasthan in 1987. It became an Act of the Parliament of India with the enactment of The Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 in 1988. The Act seeks to prevent sati the voluntary or forced burning or burying alive of a widow, and to prohibit glorification of this action through the observance of any ceremony, participation in any procession, creation of a financial trust, construction of a temple, or any actions to commemorate or honor the memory of a widow who committed sati [1]

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        struggle session incoming, but most scholars agree that it was mostly voluntary (although obviously a significant minority of it would've been forced). It was also rare outside of the nobility.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)#Early_Greek_sources

        Rajasthan is where it most likely started though

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Nah, I knew I was being a contrarian shit. It's questionable since I'm not from the culture, but I imagine it could be viewed in a light like physician assisted suicide or something.

          It's obviously from a different era, where stuff like samurai killing random peasants on the back roads existed.