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Thakuri is a Nepali variation of the Hindi word thakur, which means 'master of the estate'. Indeed, Thakuris of Nepal are associated with some territory inherited from the days of Baisi and Chaubisi principalities; the term thakurai actually refers to 'fiefdom'. It is said that among those
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Mr. Risley has also drawn attention to the fact that the supreme God "Thakur" of the
Santali traditions bears a Hindi name derived from the Sanskrit origin "thakkura". But there is much doubt whether "thakkura" itself is an original Sanskrit word. The word occurs in late Sanskrit possibly being
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is "unknown" to the Vedic and
Classical Sanskrit and finds no mention in the Sanskrit literature preceding 500 BCE. He suggests, however, that "the word was possibly current in many north Indian dialects before the Imperial Guptas". Sinha notes that many scholars, such as Buddha Prakash,
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Thakur Kesari Singh was born on 21 November 1872 at
Devpura, a small village near Shahpura in Udaipur state (Rajasthan) in a patriotic Charan family. His father, Thakur Kishan Singh a follower of Swami Dayananda was one of the chief counsellors of the ruler of
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Scholars have suggested differing meanings for the word, i.e. "god", "lord", and "master of the estate". Academics have suggested that it was only a title, and in itself, did not grant any authority to its users "to wield some power in the state".
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Rajputs fleeing to the hills after the Muslim invasion in India, successful adventurers among them were given the name and status of
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216:"It may be noted that in South India among orthodox Brahmins, Thakura or Thakur is not a popular term obviously because of its Tukhara or Turuska background."
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was used to refer to "a man of indeterminate but mid-level caste, usually implying a landowning caste". Wadley further notes that
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was suggested to be "god" by S. K. Das; "lord" by Blair B. Kling; and "master of the estate" by H. B. Gurung.
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Thakur and rajput have been used interchangeably to refer to castes of Kshatriya rank.
46:. It is also used as a surname in the present day. The female variant of the title is
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Das, Sisir Kumar (April 1968). "Forms of Address and Terms of Reference in Bengali".
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Dynamics of State Formation: India and Europe Compared
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54:, and is also used to describe the wife of a Thakur.
869:Yadav, Kripal Chandra; Arya, Krishan Singh (1988).
336:. Sons of thakurs were given the Sanskrit title of
235:is probably a loan word from the Prakrit language.
27:Historical feudal title of the Indian subcontinent
914:"गुजरात और उत्तर प्रदेश की राजनीति कैसे अलग है?"
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365:The territory of land under the control of a
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1042:Doornbos, Martin; Kaviraj, Sudipta (1997).
1016:The Aristocracy of Southern India, Volume 2
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784:A Comparative Study of Santali and Bengali
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342:('prince'), popular usage being
1013:Vadivelu, A. (24 August 2016).
943:Sharma, Ghanshyam Datt (1977).
737:Sinha, Nirmal Chandra (1987).
699:University of California Press
656:Gurung, Harka Bahadur (1996).
558:Syed Ashraf Ali (4 May 2013).
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691:"The Home and the World"
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97:is a loan word from the
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611:Saksena, B. S. (1965).
560:"From Thakur to Tagore"
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