The zemindar was not a landlord in the eyes of the ryots, because under Mogul law he could not raise the rents.
The zemindar who carried out this innovation was no other than Mr. Holwell, the same gentleman who was accepted as Governor of Calcutta on the morning of the day that ended in the Black Hole disaster.
The zemindarwas half a landlord and half a revenue collector.
After Plassy the British zemindar at Calcutta cared nothing for Mogul law.
These the zemindar had purchased, and had retained Abdul in his service, for the youth was skilled in the management of horses, and in the rearing of young stock.
Next day shortly after the hour of noon, the zemindarwas seated in council.
Those who made him a zemindar entailed upon him the consequences of so mean and depraved a tenure.
A zemindar is an Indian subject, and as such exposed to the common lot of his fellows.
With a rent money order, the case is different, the money order itself and the receipt which has to be signed by the zemindar indicate exactly the period for which rent is being paid, and to that period it must be devoted.
Rent in India is usually in arrears and, whenever a tenant pays money to a zemindar (landholder), the latter can credit it against any portion of the arrears that he thinks fit.
They passed through several villages, attracting but little attention as they did so, for there was now nothing unusual in the appearance of a Mohammedan zemindar and follower riding with two closely-veiled women en croupe.
I am informed by Gauri Chaudhuri, their representative, and now Zemindar of Dhapar, in the district of Puraniya.
In the hilly part of the country, much of the cultivation was carried on by Adhiyars, who gave to the soldier, officer, or Zemindar that employed them, one half of the produce for rent.
The Zemindar selects a number, who again are at liberty to collect through the medium of several sub-renting classes.
Zemindar said, laying aside his pipe and rising to his feet; "none could come to me whom I would rather see.
The Zemindar was seated on a divan smoking a hookah.
We wish to see the Zemindar Por Sing," Bathurst said, "to treat with him upon the subject of our surrender.
In the old days every noble and Zemindar kept up a little army for the purpose of fighting his neighbors, just as our Barons used to do in the happy olden times people talk of.
We are pressed for time," the young Zemindar shouted, and then, dropping his voice, urged the men to row at the top of their speed.
The settlement officer, however, with much difficulty prevailed upon a neighbouring Zemindar to farm the land at something like a nominal revenue.
However, offers of fifty and one hundred rupees began to be made, and one rich Zemindar came down for one thousand.
Our Zemindar estimated the cost of living for them at about three rupees a month, instead of two as at Bellari, and they eat rice and fish instead of only raghi.
The horses are ready," the zemindar said, "but I pray you to take a meal, before mounting.
As he rose to go, he thanked the zemindarmost heartily for his kindness.
The zemindar sat by while he ate his meal, and Harry gave him a short account of the manner in which he had effected his escape.
I fancy, from our position, we must be close to the residence of the zemindar who, at once, brought in a force of fifty men to aid in the defence of the town.
It is an honour that you have bestowed upon me," the zemindar said, courteously.
He showed Harry into a large room where, a few minutes later, the zemindar joined him.
The Zemindar may be a man of progress and intelligence, but many are of this broken down and helpless type.
Some years after, the old zemindar died and one of the last remarks he made was: "I should like to know what has happened to poor Ram.
When quite a small boy, Ram had been taken into service in the Bose menagé; and as his parents were both dead and he was remarkably quick and intelligent, the zemindartook a fatherly interest in the lad and had him taught to read and write.
The zemindar was sleeping heavily and as he detached the sword Ram smiled to himself as if everything was very satisfactory.
A rich zemindar named Bose lived in Lucknow, He had emigrated there from Bengal, acquired land there, and studied the language until he could speak Urdu like a Hindustanee.
When his education was finished he was appointed to be confidential clerk and cashier, and gradually grew to know as much of Bose's money affairs as the zemindar did himself.
The wealth of the Brahman excited the envy of the Zemindar of the village, who, having heard that the sandesa was not manufactured but dropped from a handi, devised a plan for getting possession of the miraculous vessel.
The Brahman at first refused to take it there; but as theZemindar insisted on its being carried to his own house, he reluctantly consented to take it there.
Being thus satisfied, the zemindar ordered a deed to be drawn up, by which he gave to the Brahman for ever one hundred bighas of rent-free land.
As many mountain-loads of sandesa would be required for the purpose, the Zemindar proposed that the Brahman should bring the magical handi to the house in which the feast was held.
The Zemindar fell prostrate at the feet of the Brahman and begged for mercy.
After that the Brahman was no more disturbed by the Zemindar or by any one else; and he lived many years in great happiness and enjoyment.
The hundred bighas of land which he has got from the zemindar are all covered with standing ripe corn.
Alone among wheeled conveyances, the ekka can leave the main roads in fairly level country, and this one had evidently brought a zemindar from a river-side village.
Chumru grinned, and the zemindar regarded him with troubled eyes.
Then Frank, thinking he remembered his face, questioned him and found he was thezemindar who helped Winifred, her uncle and himself during the flight from Cawnpore.
The zemindar was not a man who would accept payment, so Mr. Mayne gave his servants some money.
When the zemindar was close to the ekka, Chumru whipped out one of the Brahmin's cavalry pistols.
The zemindar courteously insisted that they should taste some mangoes on which he prided himself, and he also staged a quantity of lichis, a delicious fruit, closely resembling a plover's egg in appearance, peculiar to India.
While Mr. Mayne and the zemindardiscoursed on the disturbed state of the country he snatched the opportunity to exchange a few tender words with Winifred.
They are found almost entirely in the Karvetnagar estate, the zemindarbeing the head of the caste.
If the zemindar forego his demands, and make an agreement with them, they rebuild their houses in the same situations, and then render assistance to him.
Shortly after his arrival at Ratnapur, Nagendra espoused the daughter of Kanto Babu, a Zemindar residing in the neighbourhood.
That he, the son of a humble clerk, should espouse the daughter of a Zemindar was more than his wildest dreams had anticipated.
About a month after his arrival, a Zemindar of Kadampur, named Debendra Chandra Mitra, sued one of his ryots for ejectment in the local Múnsiff's Court.
Samarendra introduced himself as the local Zemindar and offered to send a shikári (game-keeper) with the visitor in order to show him some sport.
The luckless Zemindar was staggered by the tale of oppression.
One of the accusations which we mean to bring against Mr. Hastings is upon the part of the Zemindar Radanaut, of the country of Dinagepore.
It was recorded, in 1902, that a young Maravan, who was a member of the family of the Zemindar of Chokampatti, was the first non-Christian Maravan to pass the B.
As by throwing ear-rings into a river the fugitives passed through it, while the zemindar was drowned, the caste people insist on their women's ears being bored for ear-rings.
Every zemindar looks to his fort for protection, and the country is crowded with them: Almas Ali Khân asserts there are not less than seven hundred in his districts.
An occupier or zemindar may plead, that an inundation has ruined him, or that his country is a desert through want of rain.
The Zemindar became a great nabob, became sovereign of all India; the two hundred sepoys became two hundred thousand.
Our plain clothing commands far more reverence than all the jewels which the most tawdry Zemindar wears; and our plain language carries with it far more weight than the florid diction of the most ingenious Persian scribe.
The office is not necessarily hereditary, and the appointment is generally confirmed by the landlord of the majority of the villages, be the landlord the Zemindar or the Government.
Unfortunately the impecunious condition of the Zemindar precluded the Tiruttani settlement from deriving any further privileges which were necessary to keep the colony going, and its existence was, therefore, cut short.
He also prevailed upon the Zemindar of Karvetnegar to grant twenty-five cawnies of land in Tiruttani for ten years for another settlement, as well as some building materials.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zemindar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
