The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s12.3

c19.s12.3

26\. For a good example, see, for instance, one Koldinder Ranga Razu, mentioned by Richards (*Mughal Administration*, 270), an important landholder and *deshmukh* of Eluru, who owned ships and carried on coastal trade as well. In fact this is not very surprising, except when we think, as we are prone to do, in terms of the neat Census of India categories.