zemindar

Chumru quickly picked out the house of a zemindar, or land-owner, which stood in its own walled enclosure behind a clump of trees.

The zemindar was not a man who would accept payment, so Mr. Mayne gave his servants some money.

The widow in the house of Saradasankar, the Ranihat zemindar, had no kinsmen of her father's family.

A zemindar is an Indian subject, and as such exposed to the common lot of his fellows.