23 novembre 2021
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Nandini Chatterjee, « The Vigat Catalogues and Family Archives in Rajasthan », Lawforms, ID : 10.58079/qqwb
By Elizabeth Thelen In Rajasthani, the term ‘vigat’ is used commonly to refer to an account, details, explanation or list. It finds broad use in seventeenth and eighteenth-century records. The vigat of metal utensils supplied to a royal household listed the number and value of each object sent; officials asked for vigatvar (detailed) descriptions of disputes before deciding who was in the right; stray lists of facts, such as the names of the chief forts of Marwar, were titled vigat and fre...