[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985) › c19.s12.17 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s12.17 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s12.17 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s12.17) 40. For these terms, see Habib, \*Agrarian System\*, 331, n. 5. According to Habib, the term \*mawās\* is not found in the dictionaries. It is, however, given in J. Platts's \*Dictonary of Urdū, classical Hindī, and English\* in the sense of "protection, refuge, asylum, shady grove or wood," which from the "rebel's" point of view, makes perfect sense. Cf. also H. H. Wilson, \*A Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms\* (London, 1855), s.v. \*mawāshī\* ("cattle"), and J. T. Molesworīh, \*Marāṭhi-English Dictionary\*, 2d rev. ed. (Bombay, 1957), s.v. \*mavāsī\* ("life and practices of a \*mavās\* or leader of a horde of banditti"). The combination of cattle keeping and transhumance with "rebelliousness" and warrior bands in the interstitial areas is easily explicable (see below and n. 41). - [Previous: c19.s12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s12.16) - [Next: c19.s12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s12.18) - [Up: c19.s12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s12.17) · Pramāṇa