mauzadar

plural mauzadars · alternative mouzadar · alternative mazumdar

1. historicalAn administrative official responsible for a mauza in British Assam.

   Was it a crime to belong to the Mauzadar’s family? Her mother had not chosen to be born in his house.

   2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee

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   In Upper Assam, the mauzadars who might hail from outside the village were also very powerful at a time.

   1978, SM Dubey, North East India: A Sociological Study, page 142

   Only an influential and affluent resident of the concerned mauza was appointed as Mauzadar and was given the responsibility of collecting and depositing the land revenue demanded from his mauza by a stipulated date.

   2004, Mahendra Narain Karna, Agrarian Structure and Land Reforms in Assam, page 22