Zamindar

Quick meaning: Zamindar is a noun meaning (South Asia, historical) An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.

Meaning

(South Asia, historical) An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.

Example Sentences

Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees.

An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality―a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.

The power of the zamindars, who were mainly Brahmin or Rajput, was challenged in a series of peasant movements between 1919 and 1921, when Charan Singh was in his late teens.

Thus it happened that the approach of the Ibis was witnessed by Raja Neel Rattan Halder, the zemindar of Raskhali, who was on board the palatial barge with his eight-year-old son and a sizeable retune of attendants.

Word Forms

• zamindars

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