Rajat

The Rajats are the tax - paying estate of the personally free inhabitants of the khanates of Dagestan and Transcaucasia .

By the nature of the relationship to the Khans , the following categories were distinguished:

• The Rajans who lived on their own lands and paid the khan a tax in the amount of 1/10 of the crop was tithe .
• The Rayat, who lived on Bek lands as hereditary tenants and paid, besides state tithes, 1/10 of the bread, 1/5 of the silk produced, firewood, chaff, etc.
• Rajats who lived on their own lands, but in the villages granted by the Khans to the Beks. Such an award, without creating or changing any of the land rights, was accompanied by the transfer of all or part of state taxes in favor of the Beks and established personal relations between the villagers and the Bek as a Khan official.
• Nomadic Rajats who used Khan pastures and paid tax on each head of livestock ^[1] .