zemindar

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A form of zamindar — An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.

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nounzemindar (plural zemindars)

plural zemindars

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of zamindar.

    The land should, when procurable on such terms, be rented from the Zemindar, or the person to whom it has been let; and the rentee should engage to plough, and sow the land and reap the crop, […]

    1840, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Papers on the Cultivation of Cotton in India, London, page 62

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