Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An official in precolonial India assigned to collect the land taxes of his district.
- noun A landholder in British colonial India responsible for collecting and paying to the government the taxes on the land under his jurisdiction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
zemindar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical a
landowner , especially on the Indian subcontinent, one paying tax directly to the British government - noun historical an official tax-collector
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"zamindar" (a collector of land taxes or revenues).
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"zamindar" (a collector of land taxes or revenues).
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"zamindar" (a collector of land taxes or revenues).
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"zamindar" (a collector of land taxes or revenues).
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Can you imagine Nehruvian socialism evolving out of an India plagued by the caste system, decadent monarchies, and the feudal zamindar system?
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Raju worked in the rice fields ofwow gold a local landlord or zamindar for six months a year.
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He was a mad zamindar, for while he yet lived he gave to the younger his portion of the inheritance.
Fiancée 2010
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Not only was she Shia, like her father Zufliqar and Pakistan's founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah, but she came from the rich and resented zamindar feudal structure in Sindh province that is another post-colonial relict of British divide et impera strategy.
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I could live like a zamindar, I could work for pleasure.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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I could live like a zamindar, I could work for pleasure.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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