zemindary

[zam-in-dahr-ee, zem-, zuh-meen-]

noun

plural

zemindaries 

1. a variant of zamindari.

Example Sentences

About six parts in ten of the whole lands had been alienated to the Brahmans and temples, nor do I hear any complaint in this quarter of the present government having invaded this p. 115property; but much of the Zemindary lands have been granted to the soldiers and officers, on the same terms as towards the east, and the Zemindars of such lands have in a great measure been left to the discretion of the new occupants, who have of course raised considerably the rate of rent. 

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A native town in one of the zemindary estates was so mutilated by them that it looked as if it had sustained a siege.

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McMaster states that it is found in the Golcondah Zemindary near Daraconda.

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How came this Rajah's family into possession of this great zemindary?

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The word has in each case a totally different sense; but such is the stupidity and barbarism of the prisoner, that he confounds these senses, and tells you Sujah Dowlah took twenty-five lacs as a fine from Cheyt Sing for the renewal of his zemindary, and therefore, as a punishment for his offences, he shall take fifty.

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