In the meantime he got in opportunity to read the world literature, while working as a tutor to the sons of zamindars. ❋ Kesav (2009)
Prominent Pujas were conducted by the landed zamindars and jagirdars, enriched by British rule, including Raja Nabakrishna Deb, of Shobhabajar, who initiated an elaborate Puja at his residence. ❋ Photographerno1 (2009)
In the more remote and lawless areas the zamindars and their thugs often bribe or threaten the polling agents, then simply stuff the ballot boxes with thousands of votes for themselves. ❋ Dalrymple, William (2008)
The big landlords here — the zamindars — expect electoral loyalty from their tenants. ❋ Dalrymple, William (2008)
In Jhang district of the rural Punjab, for example, as many as 10 of the 11 elected are from middle class backgrounds: sons of revenue officers, senior policemen, functionaries in the civil bureaucracy and so on, rather than the usual feudal zamindars. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The latter, at the risk of simplifying things a bit, were either at the very top or the very bottom: either maharajahs or big zamindars with a feudal hold on the allegiances of the voters in their districts, or semi-literate 'lumpens' with little to lose who got into politics as their only means of self-advancement. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In Jhang district of the rural Punjab, for example, as many as ten out of eleven of those elected are the sons of revenue officers, senior policemen, functionaries in the civil bureaucracy, and so on, rather than usual feudal zamindars. ❋ Dalrymple, William (2008)
Yet even here, members of the local middle class have just stood successfully for election against the local zamindars. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the book, the immense wealth of the zamindars is juxtaposed with their lifestyles - either given over to the pleasures of the flesh or to intellectual pursuits as in the case of the two principal characters, Nabinkumar - supposedly based on the character of Kali Prasanna Singha, a Bengali aristocrat and translator of the Mahabharata into Bengali, and his elder brother Ganga. ❋ Shantanud (2008)
To make a living, these haris cultivate the lands of landowners as sharecroppers, traditionally sharing the harvest 50/50 with the zamindars. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Some more oppressive zamindars give the haris only 25% of their harvest. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We never subscribed to the idea of targeting individual “class” enemies and instead, were in favour of marching forward by forceful possession of farmlands owned by zamindars and big landlords. ❋ Abhay N (2007)
But the mentality of the kisans the landowning Kurmi peasants was that of big zamindars. ❋ Abhay N (2006)
And as a strategy, the then CPI(ML) began armed hostilities against the police and individual killings in the name of annihilating class enemies and zamindars, engaged in bloody skirmishes with the CPI(M) activists and other political rivals and exploding hand bombs in public places. ❋ Abhay N (2006)
The British masters and their government of the zamindars unleashed the police and the army on the peasantry to suppress their struggle but the peasants of Singur did not yield and refused to part with their share of the harvest. ❋ Abhay N (2006)
As the dispute is purely of a religious nature I conceive it would be advisable to ascertain by means of the zamindars 90 and others of the principal Inhabitants of the district, who must of course be well acquainted with the customs that have long prevailed regarding those (Weeramoosty) People whither it has really been usual for the Cast of Salees to bestow alms on that class .... ❋ Unknown (2001)
Note 90: Resorting to zamindars here places that group in an authoritative position vis-à-vis the East India Company's conception of religion. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The Board of Trade appealed to the Board of Revenue in this manner because zamindars came under the revenue branch of the Company's administration. ❋ Unknown (2001)
[Hey Bro], [stop] [giving] me the zamindar! ❋ ButterLover84 (2015)
