Jajmani system as popular in parts of Medieval India in regions like Bengal was 1 A system of heredi...........

Ancient and Medival History Later Mughals and Advent of Europeans

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Jajmani system, as popular in parts of Medieval India in regions like Bengal, was

1. A system of hereditary holding.

2. A terms of payment of daily allowances.

3. A military service rendered by the local populace.

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Explanation:

Statement 1: In Maharashtra some lands became the artisans’ miras or watan – their hereditary holding. This wasn’t the jajmani system.
Statement 2: But, another variant of this was a system where artisans and individual peasant households entered into a mutually negotiated system of remuneration, most of the time goods for services.
For example, eighteenth-century records tell us of zamindars in Bengal who remunerated blacksmiths, carpenters, even goldsmiths for their work by paying them “a small daily allowance and diet money”. This later came to be described as the jajmani system.