At the time of the harvest season, the Zamindar sent his servants to the Idaiyans with orders that they were not to tie up the rice plants in sheaves.
According to the story, the Zamindar asked an Idaiyan whether he would marry a widow.
Meanwhile another Jain of the Gingee country, Gangayya Udaiyar of Tayanur in the Tindivanam taluk, had fled to the protection of the Zamindar of Udaiyarpalaiyam in Trichinopoly, who befriended him and gave him some land.
The zamindar was conspicuous and useful; the village community and the cultivating ryot did not force themselves into notice.
If the offer of the zamindar was not deemed satisfactory, another contractor was substituted in his place.
The same English prejudice which made a landlord of the zamindar could recognize nothing but a tenant-at-will in the ryot.
Neither zamindar nor village officer intervenes between the cultivator and the state, which takes directly upon its own shoulders all a landlord's responsibility.
The zamindar himself is a creation of the Mahommedans, unknown to the early Hindu system.
The zamindar seemed a solvent person, capable of keeping a contract; and his official position as tax-collector was confused with the proprietary rights of an English landlord.
Their vernacular is Telugu, since they are immigrants from the Northern Circars, from whence most of them followed the ancestors of the Karvetnagar zamindar within the last two centuries.
The Vaniah here referred to is the Zamindar of Sivagiri in the Tinnevelly district, a Vanniya by caste.
Persons of any caste above the Paraiyas are admitted into its ranks, and the men in it may marry a woman of any other caste with the permission of the zamindar under whom they serve.
The Chhuri Kawars were insulted, and the more so because the Pendra zamindar and other outsiders were present.
Instances of deified human beings are Kolin Sati, a Kol concubine of a zamindar of Pendra who died during pregnancy, and Sarangarhni, a Ghasia woman who was believed to have been the mistress of a Raja of Sarangarh and was murdered.
Other names are Zamindar (landholder) or Kirsan (tenant).
They obeyed the command of the god, and a Korku zamindar is still the hereditary guardian of Mahadeo's shrine at Pachmarhi.
The Gutta Kois say the lowland Kois formerly dwelt on the plateau, but on one occasion some of them started out on a journey to see a Zamindar in the plains, promising to return before very long.
Cain that "until the talukas were handed over to British rule, the Bhadrachallam Zamindar always kept up a troop of Rohillas, who received very little pay for their services, and lived chiefly by looting the country around.
Then when the budmashes come, the zamindar (farmer or yeoman) and his sons, and the drivers, can pretend to run away and leave the women at the mercy of the rebels.
There's the cart," whispered Ted, as the zamindar and his son dashed past them.
The zamindar engaged his sons in a whispered conversation.
The present Rajah of Anegundi, whose family name is Pampapati, and who resides on the old family estate as a zamindar under H.
He then marched on an expedition into Malabar, and afterwards moved against a powerful zamindar to the south of Vijayanagar, who held out for six months and in the end beat off the troops of Rama Raya.
Sultan Firuz moved to meet him, slaughtering on the way a Hindu chief or zamindar and seven or eight thousand of his followers, "who had always been very troublesome and refractory.
Similarly Cunningham notices that the zamindar of Suarmar in Raipur, which name is derived from Savar, is a Gond.
They look on god as a big zamindar or landowner, who does nothing himself, but keeps a chaprasi as an agent or debt-collector; and they conceive the latter as having all the defects so common to his profession.
And these establishments formed no charge, as they lived on lands which the zamindar did not bring to account.
It was formerly held to be fitting among the Hindus that the warrior should ride a horse (geldings being unknown) and the zamindar or landowner a mare, as more suitable to a man of peace.
The caste has at present a fairly high position, and several important Madras chiefs are Velamas, as well as the zamindar of Sironcha in the Central Provinces.
He wished he had stripped the zamindar whom he had left on the ground.
And then thou didst come upon us like a swift breath, and the zamindar hath not escaped the edge of the sword.
The zamindar had shown forethought in thus providing against a possibly prolonged march.
Then he remembered that the zamindar had fired almost point-blank at him, and did not doubt that the bullet had gone through his head-dress.
The missy sahib whom you saved from the zamindar has a father in Delhi, but she knows not where.
The zamindar is not a man of war, and he lay for a time in his house, hoping that if his face was not seen by the Feringhis he would escape the edge of the sword.
The latter, explaining that the devil was a female and fond of jewelry, induced the Zamindar to leave a large quantity of jewels in a locked receptacle in a certain room, to which only the exorcist, and of course the devil, had access.
A few years ago, a Zamindar (landowner) in the Godavari district engaged a Muhammadan to exorcise a devil which haunted his house.
The zamindar afterwards became so exceedingly wealthy that he had difficulty in storing his wealth.
In Bodasamar a fine of from one to ten rupees is payable to the zamindar in the case of each divorce, and a feast must also be given to the caste-fellows.
Polygamy is permitted; a Binjhwar zamindar marries a new wife, who is known as Pat Rani, to celebrate his accession to his estates, even though he may have five or six already.
Behind the leader marched the old zamindar with his daughter, and the whole body of slaves, Chinese, Tibetans, Indians of all castes and none.
The zamindar politely escorted them to the doorway.
The zamindar looked round apprehensively, as if he feared that the walls might hear him.
The Judge found that the dagger was there for the purpose of indicating that the two ladies, whom the Zamindar married, were of an inferior caste and rank.
Some Valaiyans in prosperous circumstances, and others who became relatives of the Nagaram Zamindar by marriage, have changed their caste name, to show that they are superior in social status to the rest of the community.
I am informed that the Valuvadis are a section of the Valaiyan caste, to which the Zamindar of Nagaram belongs.
The name of the present Zamindar is Balasubramanya Valuvadiar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zamindar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
