Zemindar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Variant of zamindar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Alternative spelling of zamindar.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as zamindar.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Originally, one of a class of farmers of the revenue from land held in common by its cultivators, established by the Mogul government of India, every one in a specially assigned tract or district; now, in many provinces, a native landlord, regarded as a successor of the preceding, and similarly responsible for the land-tax, who under British regulations has become the actual proprietor of the soil under his jurisdiction, often with right of primogeniture.
  • Word Usage
    "We halted at Lagshung, at the house of a friendly zemindar, who pressed upon me the loan of a big Yarkand horse for the ford, a kindness which nearly proved fatal; and then by shingle paths through lacerating thickets of the horrid"
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    zamindar   
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