Malikana is a historical South Asian term for a payment made to a malik — a landlord or proprietor — in recognition of their ownership rights over land or property. Under the complex land tenure systems of Mughal and British colonial India, various payments and dues were owed to different levels of the landowning hierarchy, and malikana was one such recognized fee. The term appears frequently in historical, legal, and administrative texts dealing with pre-independence Indian land reform and property law.
The tenant farmers paid their malikana to the zamindar at the end of the harvest season, as had been the custom for decades.
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(India) A payment made to a malik or landlord.
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