Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s4.t2.5

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c5.s4.t2.5

² K.R.; I, 107; compare Rawlinson, Five great Monarchies III, 223 for the Persian parallel :—‘Of right the position at the Persian Court immediately below that of the king belonged to the members of certain privileged families. Besides the royal family itself—or clan of the Achaemanidae—there were six great houses which had a rank superior to that of all other grandees’.

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