Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.213
Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v2.c26.s2.213
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v2.c26.s2.213
*Jōḍi*, Tel. K. (a) An easy or quit rent, a personal tax on district officers. (b) A tenure under which a person reclaims a certain portion of waste land, settles on it, pays a half or a quarter of the gross value of the produce to government. This tenure differs from *Kāyam-gutte* in the latter being a permanent contract for a government village on the annual payment of a fixed sum. (*N.*, p. 91; *E. C.* V.P.I, Hn. 2, p. 2; *W.*, p. 241).