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'''Mankari''' (Mānkari or Maankari) is a hereditary title used by [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] [[Nobility|nobles]]<ref name="google1">{{cite book|title=Calendar of Persian Correspondence|author1=Imperial Record Dept India|date=1959|issue=v. 10, pg. 204|publisher=Superintendent Government Printing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KxpuAAAAMAAJ&q=mankari+chiefs|accessdate=2015-01-11}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Mahadji Shinde and the Poona Durbar|author1=Pandey, R. G.|date=1980|issue=v. 1, pg. 133|publisher=Oriental Publishers & Distributor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7xAAAAAMAAJ&q=mankari+chiefs|accessdate=2006-01-10}}</ref> and troops<ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=Peshwa Bajirao II and the Downfall of the Maratha Power|author1=Vaidya, S. G.|date=1975|issue=v. 1, pg. 101|publisher=Pragati Prakashan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3YBAAAAMAAJ&q=mankari+troops|accessdate=2005-03-11}}</ref> from the [[Indian subcontinent]] who held land grants, and cash allowances.<ref name="google4">{{cite book|title=The Central India State Gazetteer Series|author1=Central India|author2=Luard, C.E.|date=1908|issue=v. 5, pt. 1|publisher=Thacker, Spink|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_4bAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2015-07-12}}</ref> They held an official position at the [[Durbar (court)|Darbar]] ([[court]]) and were entitled to certain ceremonial honours and presents rendered at courts, councils, weddings, festivals, village assemblies, etc. They were worthy of distinction and the honour bestowed upon them was the result of the military, bureaucratic or fiscal importance of them or their distinguished ancestors.<ref name="google5">{{cite book|title=Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis Dumont|author=Madan, T.N.|date=1988|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=9788120805279|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_qMH9PY9fQC&pg=PA129|page=129|accessdate=2015-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xdIBAAAAMAAJ&q=Mankari+being+primarily+a+title+applied+to+Maratha+noblemen%2C+who+held+an+official+position+at+court|title = Pt. II. Descriptive articles on the principal castes and tribes of the Central Provinces|last1 = Russell|first1 = Robert Vane|year = 1916}}</ref>

The term was widely used by [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] [[nobility]], who held important positions in various [[List of Maratha dynasties and states|princely states]] of the [[Maratha Empire]].<ref name="google6">{{cite book|title=Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India|author=O'Hanlon, R.|date=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521523080|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&pg=PA45|page=45|accessdate=2015-07-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THR5AAAAIAAJ&q=mankari|title=Poona in the eighteenth century: An urban history|last1=Gokhale|first1=Balkrishna Govind|year=1988|isbn=978-0-19-562137-2}}</ref>

==See also==
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*[[Maratha Empire]]
*[[Maratha titles]]
*[[Indian honorifics]]
*[[Indian feudalism]]
* [[Jagirdar]]
* [[Lambardar]]
* [[Sarpanch]]
* [[Zaildar]]
* [[Zamindar]]
*[[Princely state]]
*[[Salute state]]
*[[List of Indian Princely States]]
*[[List of Maratha dynasties and states]]
{{div col end}}

==References==
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[[Category:Noble titles]]
[[Category:Royal titles]]
[[Category:Social titles]]
[[Category:Maratha Empire]]
[[Category:Indian words and phrases]]
[[Category:Marathi words and phrases]]
[[Category:Urdu-language words and phrases]]
[[Category:Positions of authority]]
[[Category:High society (social class)]]
[[Category:Oligarchy]]
[[Category:Social class in India]]
[[Category:Titles of national or ethnic leadership]]

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