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zamindar
[ zuh-meen-dahr ]
noun
- (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
- (in Mogul India) a collector of farm revenue, who paid a fixed sum on the district assigned to him.
zamindar
/ zəmiːnˈdɑː /
noun
- (in India) the owner of an agricultural estate
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Example Sentences
If the offer of the zamindar was not deemed satisfactory, another contractor was substituted in his place.
The zamindar himself is a creation of the Mahommedans, unknown to the early Hindu system.
The zamindar was conspicuous and useful; the village community and the cultivating ryot did not force themselves into notice.
The same English prejudice which made a landlord of the zamindar could recognize nothing but a tenant-at-will in the ryot.
And then thou didst come upon us like a swift breath, and the zamindar hath not escaped the edge of the sword.
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