Which one of the following statements about the 'Amara-Nayaka' system is not correct?
The territories held by the Amara-Nayakas were hereditary and were therefore non-transferrable.
The Amara-Nayaka system was indeed a distinctive administrative innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, so the first statement is correct.
Amara-Nayakas were military chiefs to whom the Raya assigned territories in return for maintaining troops, horses and elephants for the state, so the second statement is correct.
They collected revenue from their territories, used part of it to pay their soldiers and retained a share for themselves, remitting the rest to the royal treasury, so the third statement is correct.
However, these territorial assignments were not hereditary; the Raya could and periodically did transfer Amara-Nayakas from one territory to another, keeping control centralised. Hence the claim that their holdings were hereditary and non-transferrable is incorrect.
Hence, the statement that is not correct is that the Amara-Nayaka territories were hereditary and non-transferrable.
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