zamindar

/zuh-meen-dahr/US // zə minˈdɑr //UK // (zəmiːnˈdɑː) //

泽明达

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
- : a collector of farm revenue, who paid a fixed sum on the district assigned to him.

If the offer of the zamindar was not deemed satisfactory, another contractor was substituted in his place.
The zamindar himself is a creation of the Mahommedans, unknown to the early Hindu system.
The zamindar was conspicuous and useful; the village community and the cultivating ryot did not force themselves into notice.
The same English prejudice which made a landlord of the zamindar could recognize nothing but a tenant-at-will in the ryot.
And then thou didst come upon us like a swift breath, and the zamindar hath not escaped the edge of the sword.