Zamindari

Word ZAMINDARI
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Definitions and meanings of "Zamindari"

What do we mean by zamindari?

The system of tax collection by zamindars. noun

The area administered by a zamindar. noun

Same as zemindary, 2. noun

In British India, a system used to collect revenues from the ryots (cultivators of agricultural land) indirectly through the zamindars, as opposed to ryotwari, where revenues were collected directly. noun

In British India, a system used to collect revenues from the ryots (cultivators of agricultural land) indirectly through the zamindars, as opposed to ryotwari, where revenues were collected directly.

The office or jurisdiction of a zamindar.

The land possessed by a zamindar.

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The word "zamindari" in example sentences

Seth's novel allows us to witness firsthand the events that took place during the period when the law that put an end to the zamindari system was passed and to see with new eyes the genuine impact of such a reform. ❋ Dan Ernst (2008)

To Westerners, the abolition of the zamindari system would seem to have been a sign of real independence and of the will to abolish feudalism. ❋ Dan Ernst (2008)

At independence, the district began with the advantages of the ryotwari system of land tenure, rather than the burdens of zamindari. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

The article examines a concrete literary example offered by Vikram Seth in his novel A Suitable Boy, in which the author deals with the debate about peasants property in the form of land and about the abolition of the zamindari system, which had been icontinued by British rulers during the colonial period, but after independence in 1947 the system was ntroduced in India by the Mughals to collect land taxes from the peasants. ❋ Dan Ernst (2008)

Even after nearly six decades of ‘Independence’, five decades of zamindari abolition and four decades of green revolution, feudal remnants in India remain quite visibly powerful and stubborn. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

Long after the abolition of the zamindari system of landlordism in 1953, in ❋ Abhay N (2006)

The Permanent Settlement stabilized the revenue system by fixing the assessment in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa (and Benares Province, 1795) with collection through zamindars (large landlords) (zamindari system), but failed to check the latter's exploitation of the peasantry; it also effected ruthless sale of zamindar rights in case of default and closed the way to later reassessments, thereby eventually causing great financial loss to the government. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Binjhwars are usually cultivators and labourers, while, as already stated, several zamindari and other estates are owned by members of the tribe. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

A person guilty of one of the above offences must have his or her head shaved by a barber, and make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Narsingh Nath in Bodasamar zamindari; after having accomplished this he is purified by one of the Sonwani sept, being given water in which gold has been dipped to drink through a bamboo tube, and he provides usually three feasts for the caste-fellows. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

The tribe was not returned outside this area in 1911, but Sherring mentions them in a list of the hill tribes of the Jaipur zamindari of Vizagapatam, which touches the extreme south of Bindranawagarh. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

_ [530] -- A primitive tribe living in the wild hilly country of the Bilaspur zamindari estates, adjoining Chota Nagpur. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

Two such men who had acquired possession of extensive tracts of zamindari land in Chhattisgarh, in satisfaction of loans made to the Gond zamindars, and had been given the zamindari status by the Marathas, were subsequently made Feudatory Chiefs of the Nandgaon and Chhuikhadan States. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

She took refuge in a Binjhwar's hut and bore a son who became Raja of Patna; and in reward for the protection afforded to his mother he gave the Binjhwar the Bodasamar estate, requiring only of him and his descendants the tribute of a silk cloth on accession to the zamindari; and this has been rendered ever since by the zamindars of Bodasamar to the Rajas of Patna as a mark of fealty. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

And the Binjhwars and Bharotias, who are more or less Hinduised, have now adopted territorial names for their septs, as Lapheya from Lapha zamindari, Ghugharia from Ghughri village in ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

The very spot on which the moonlight falls is my landed property, but the moonlight tells me that my _zamindari_ is an illusion, and my _zamindari_ tells me that this moonlight is all emptiness. ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)

Those of Pendra zamindari have no traditions of their origin beyond saying that the adjoining Kenda zamindari was their original home. ❋ Robert Vane Russell (1894)

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