- a variation of zamindar.
zemindar
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O blessed spirit, I wish to go to yonder banyan-tree, and cut off one of its branches for the zemindar, who has promised to give me one hundred bighas of rent-free land for it.
From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
Bulwant Sing, if he had been, and Cheyt Sing, as long as he was, a zemindar, stood exactly in this mean and depraved state by the constitution of his country.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Krishna Gopal Sircar, zemindar of Jhikrakota, made over his estates to his eldest son, and retired to Kasi, as befits a good Hindu, to spend the evening of his life in religious devotion.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
When at last the face was raised I recognized the dhobi of the village that nestled under the hill on which was perched the castle of the zemindar.
From Tales of Destiny by Edmund Mitchell
The zemindar had now to rest content with just the stipulated rent, and nothing more.
From Mashi and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
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