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Definition of Chiefships
1. chiefship [n] - See also: chiefship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefships
Literary usage of Chiefships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Rajputs, and includes, among others, the chiefships of NAWANAGAR, RAJKOT, MORVI,
DHORAJI, ... chiefships ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"All of these chiefships are' situated in the plain country, which in general is
well watered by .... chiefships ..."
3. Our Indian Protectorate: An Introduction to the Study of the Relations by Sir Charles Lewis Tupper (1893)
"Both chiefs were heads of a group of chiefships, and at one time the supremacy
appears to ... The Sambalpur and Patna groups comprised eighteen chiefships, ..."