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  • Indeed many wealthy mercantile and Zamindar families in Bengal made British Officers of the East India Company guests of honour in the Pujas.

    Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The Zamindar may have used the játi term to make his knowledge of some of the politics of the situation stand out for Balmain, who was to have made a decision on the matter.

    Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001

  • Agricultural production fell because of a feudal land tenure system with a British-created absentee landlord or Zamindar acting as the middleman.

    Focus on India 1967

  • The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents 'omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the _Zamindar_.

    Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • The good natured superintendent wondered why and upon quizzing the Zamindar found out that Yeshwant had paid back the majestic amount of Rs 100 and had conducted the wedding, while recuperating.

    DesiPundit 2010

  • He conducted his daughters marriage and paid off the dowry, he also paid off the Zamindar the Rs 100/-.

    DesiPundit 2010

  • Nilmony Dutt, a rich Zamindar, was the patriarch of Dutt family.

    Kamat's Potpourri 2010

  • The amount owed to the Zamindar was all of two hundred rupees, money borrowed for the marriage of Yeshwant's sisters, and in order to tide the terrible decade of famine they had finally passed just two summers ago.

    DesiPundit 2010

  • The Zamindar by chance met the British superintendent and mentioned in passing that he must be paying his coolies too well.

    DesiPundit 2010

  • To top his misery, Yeshwant had also been told by the Zamindar (who knew Yeshwant had a regular pay now) that an amount of Rs 100/- be paid to him by the end of summer or vague but dire consequences would result.

    DesiPundit 2010

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