The feudal system meant that peasants were bound by law to work for the nobility, who owned the land they lived on. The outside working day started at dawn, which meant that during the summer ...

Contrary to popular mainstream narratives, feudalism in Sindh has long been in decline as a new middle class and urban elite ...

As a gap between billionaires and everybody else swells, a bipartisan project decades in the making, Jodi Dean, author and ...

The recent controversy surrounding the 17th-century Mughal ruler Aurangzeb is a vivid example of how intensely history can be ...

Despite technological and social progress, the fundamental dynamic between state power and citizen awareness continues ...

While the ongoing discrimination against the southern states, the indirect imposition of Hindi and Sanskrit, and punitive ...

And although lordly resistance, which itself depended on feudalism, was slow to materialise, by April the tide in some regions was turning. Near Leipheim, a town on the Danube, four thousand peasants ...

The Restoration of 1867 did not greatly alter the Emperor's relation to administration, though it removed the last vestige of the feudal system and thus gave room ... not have their loyalty questioned ...