mirasdar

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A form of mirasidar — A village landholder who paid rent directly to the sovereign; an aristocratic landowner in India.

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nounmirasdar (plural mirasdars)

plural mirasdars

  1. alternativeAlternative form of mirasidar.

    In many mirasdari areas, there were no hereditary village headmen and the mirasdars as a group performed their functions, such as collecting the land revenue.

    1983, Tapan Raychaudhuri, The Cambridge Economic History of India: Volume 2, C.1751-c.1970
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