zamindar

zamindar
/zeuh meen dahr"/, n.
1. (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
2. (in Mogul India) a collector of farm revenue, who paid a fixed sum on the district assigned to him.
Also, zemindar.
[1675-85; < Hindi < Pers zamindar landholder, equiv. to zamin earth, land + -dar holding, holder]

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▪ landlord or official
      in India, a holder or occupier (dār) of land (zamīn). The root words were Persian, and the resulting name was widely used wherever Persian influence was spread by the Mughals or other Indian Muslim dynasties. The meanings attached to it were various. In Bengal the word denoted a hereditary tax collector who could retain 10 percent of the revenue he collected. In the late 18th century the British government made these zamindars landowners, thus creating a landed aristocracy in Bengal and Bihār that lasted until Indian independence (1947).

      In parts of North India (e.g., Uttar Pradesh), a zamindar denoted a large landowner with full proprietary rights. More generally in North India, zamindar denoted the cultivator of the soil or joint proprietors holding village lands in common as joint heirs. In Marāthā territories, the name was generally applied to all local hereditary revenue officers.

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