Definition of Zemindar. Meaning of Zemindar. Synonyms of Zemindar

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Definition of Zemindar

zemindar
Zamindar am`in*dar", n. [Hind. zem[=i]nd[=a]r, zam[=i]nd[=a]r, a landholder, Per. zam[=i]nd[=a]r; zam[=i]n land d[=a]r holding.] A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue. [Written also zemindar.] [India]
Zemindar
Zemindar em`in*dar", n. Same as Zamindar.

Meaning of Zemindar from wikipedia

- A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate). The term itself came into use during...
- or supravisor, appointed to the charge of a country on the removal of a Zemindar, or for any other particular purpose of local investigation or arrangement...
- the prin****l revenue servant under a European collector, and even of a Zemindar. By this title, the East India Company are receivers-general of the revenues...
- Babu Bahadur Singh, honorary magistrate, Pilibhit Babu Shuhrat Singh, Zemindar of Chandpur and honorary magistrate, Basti N S Nanjundiah (1879–1953),...
- local landholders, or zemindars, often led these uprisings. The Sikh and Jat rebellions were led by such small local zemindars, who had close ****ociation...
- British rule, Ghugudanga Estate was the most important amongst the Muslim Zemindars within undivided Dinajpur district comprising 30 police stations. It is...
- the real power lay with the Zemindar, and, it may be added with the Indian deputy, who went by the name of "Black Zemindar". This office was filled during...
- commemorate the 150th anniversary of the mutiny. Valerie Fitzgerald's novel Zemindar is set in the lead up to and siege of Lucknow with the evacuation, seen...
- Kashmiri Pandit family. Sapru was the only son of Ambika Prasad Sapru, a zemindar, and his wife Gaura Sapru (née Hukku). Sapru's mother Gaura was the sister...
- '24 Parganas'. In 1751, the Company ****igned John Zephaniah Holwell as zemindar of the District. In 1759, after the Bengali War of 1756–1757, the Company...