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Zamindar
Zamˊin-dar′
,Noun.
[Hind.
zemīndār
, zamīndār
, a landholder, Per. zamīndār
; zamīn
land dār
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]
Definition 2025
zamindar
zamindar
English
Alternative forms
Noun
zamindar (plural zamindars)
- (now historical) An official tax-collector in British India.
- (now historical) An Indian landowner paying tax directly to the British government.
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2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 6:
- Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 39:
- Thus it happened that the approach of the Ibis was witnessed by Raja Neel Rattan Halder, the zemindar of Raskhali, who was on board the palatial barge with his eight-year-old son and a sizeable retune of attendants.
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2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 6: