zamindar

American

[zuh-meen-dahr] / zə minˈdɑr /

Or zemindar

noun

(in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
(in Mogul India) a collector of farm revenue, who paid a fixed sum on the district assigned to him.

zamindar British

/ zəmiːnˈdɑː /

noun

(in India) the owner of an agricultural estate

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Etymology

Origin of zamindar

1675–85; < Hindi < Persian zamīndār landholder, equivalent to zamīn earth, land + -dār holding, holder

Example Sentences

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Partition, as books in recent years by Yasmin Khan and Vazira Zamindar have shown, was a different process depending on which part of it you were caught up in.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2017

A Zamindar in a small way was among our144 party.

From My Reminiscences by Hesh, Sasi Kumar

The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.

From Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath

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