India. Also enaum, inām, inaám. [Pers. (Arab.) in sām, lit. ‘favor,’ f. na sama to be happy, in 4th conj. an sama to favor, bless.] A grant of land free of the land-tax due to the State as supreme landlord; also, the land so held.
1803. Dk. Wellington, in Gurwood, Desp., V. 361. The Rajah gave him a village in enaum.
1850. W. H. Morley, Anal. Digest, I. 302/1. An Inaámdár is not competent to alienate any part of his Inaám.
1858. J. B. Norton, Topics, 240. Short-sighted sovereigns … granted away an enormous quantity of land in enam.
