The collection of the ghauts near Futtyghur has been seized by the Vizier's cutwal, and the zemindars in four purgunnahs are so refractory as to have fortified themselves in their gurries, and to refuse all payments of revenue.
It is not the custom of the Company to deprive the zemindars and jaghiredars of the means of subsistence.
Aliverdy Khân and Cossim Ali fined all their zemindars on the necessities of war, and on every pretence either of court necessity or court extravagance.
In Bengal, all the greatzemindars are rich, very rich men.
If such a state of affairs were to come about, and these zemindars remained neutral, of course the cry of breaking faith would be absurd in the extreme.
But who are these men--these zemindars with whom you are required to keep an implicit faith?
There is another common mode of fishing adopted in narrow lakes and small streams, which are let out to the fishermen by the Zemindars or landholders.
Education is now making rapid strides; it is fostered by government, and many of the wealthier landowners or Zemindars subscribe liberally for a schoolmaster in their villages.
At the beginning of the financial year, when the accounts of the past season had all been made up and arranged, and the collection of the rents for the new year was beginning, the planters and Zemindars held what was called the Pooneah.
The farmers and zemindars under the Committee prosecute the same plan, and have already objections to anything that has the least appearance of restriction.
Mr. John Gordon arrived at Taunda, a jaghire of mine, fighting with the zemindars of Acberpore, which belongs to the Khalseh.
The Mahometans form the other part, whose whole interest in the land consists in the jaghires: for very few indeed of them are zemindars anywhere, in some of the provinces none of them are so; the whole of them are jaghiredars.
Having thus disposed of the native landed interest, and the native zemindars or landholders of the country, I pass to the English government.
He discovers the secret resources of the zemindars and renters, their enemies and competitors, and by the engines of hope and fear raised upon these foundations he can work them to his purpose.
They corresponded to the zemindars of Bengal, and often, like them, assumed the rights of ownership over the villages.
The zemindars in the Telegu country still retain their estates with the proprietary rights of landlords.
There were zemindars in the Telugu country to the northward, which had been conquered centuries previously by the Mohammedan Sultans of Golconda; and with these zemindars it was easy to conclude a perpetual settlement.
His kingdom was parcelled out amongst a landed aristocracy, known as talukdars, who were half landlords and half revenue collectors, like the zemindars of Bengal.
Warren Hastings pleaded that the Bengal zemindars were servants of the Nawab, over whom the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction.
The changes in the status of Bengal zemindars may be gathered from what is known of old Calcutta.
Not only were the records lost, but the revenue administration was in utter confusion; the ministers exacted what they could from the zemindars, and the zemindars in their turn oppressed the ryots.
Bengal zemindars ceased to act as magistrates or judges.
Lord Wellesley ordered that the land revenue in the North-West Provinces should be settled with the talukdars at fixed rates, like the perpetual settlement with the zemindars in Bengal.
The settlement with the Bengal zemindars was still awaiting a decision.
Such was the passion for local influence, that many zemindars had agreed to pay a larger revenue than could be realised from the rents.
Accordingly zemindars were created in the Madras Presidency by the old Bengal process of grouping villages together, selling them by auction, and treating the lucky buyer as a zemindar.
But the newzemindars failed to pay the stipulated revenue.
A regular postal system was first introduced by Lord Clive in 1766, and the zemindars or landholders along the various routes were held responsible for the supply of runners to carry the mails.
When it was necessary to use the roads, elephants were provided by the Commissary-General at Calcutta and by local zemindars (landholders).
This is the ordinary ruling of the rent courts and does not at all meet the wishes of zemindars who want to have their tenants in their power.
The local posts in districts between police stations and head-quarters were maintained by the zemindars or landholders of each district, and their duties in this respect are laid down in Bengal Regulation XX of 1817.
I asked him to explain this, and he said that they advanced money to the Zemindars to enable them to pay the Government dues.
He told me there were a good many rich Mohammedans at Jeypore, both Zemindars and in the Army, besides shop-keepers, forming one-third of the population.
The present tenure is briefly this: the Zemindars are the proprietors, and cannot be assessed at more than one-fifth of the gross produce of their estate.
The Zemindars will be reduced to the ownership only of such lands as they occupy.
The breach of faith with the Zemindars was glaring, and it was not proposed to compensate them in any way.
Then, at three, I went with Anne to another meeting, that of the Zemindars at the Town Hall.
The irregular cavalry and those of the zemindars were ordered to attack them but, as soon as they left the town, they dispersed and rode away.
I shall, of course, be drawing up a list of the zemindars and others who have rendered service, and recommending them for reward to the Government.
Here is a list of the zemindars within fifteen miles of the city.
There remained the reading of papers, filled with words unintelligible to English ears, with lacs and crores, zemindars and aumils, sunnuds and perwarmahs, jaghires and nuzzurs.
He was also an agent for the other Zemindars of his village, to represent losses which they had suffered, and to solicit indulgences on the occasion.
The possessions of a convenient number of Zemindars formed a gram or gang, and one of them held the hereditary office of Pradhan, entirely analogous to the Umra of the eastern parts.
She was originally allowed a pension of 100 rupees a month; but for many years this has been withheld, and the Zemindars in the Company’s territory are giving her great trouble respecting some lands, which had been granted her free of rent.
The representations of the other Zemindars or farmers in the same gram, were usually considered as the most just criterion of this incapacity.
Most of the landholders or zemindars in that country happened at that time to be women.
With respect to the alienation of parts of zemindaries, the extent and consequence of the great zemindarsdepend in a great measure on the favor and countenance of the ruling powers.
On this refusal he threw the whole body of zemindars into prison, and thus in bonds and fetters compelled them to sign their own ruin by an increase of rent which they knew they could never realize.
The latter are for the immediate support of the zemindars and their families,--as from the former they derive their influence, authority, and the means of upholding their dignity.
He discovers the secret resources of the zemindars and renters, their enemies and competitors; and by the engines of hope and fear, raised upon these foundations, he can work them to his purpose.
But if the Zemindars join them with cannon, we may defend ourselves till the last, but there can be but one end to it.
All Cawnpore will turn out, and we shall have the Lord of Bithoor and any number of Talookdars and Zemindarswith their suites.
We want your opinion, for you know, I think, more of the Zemindars in this part of the country than any of us.
All this was satisfactory; but I learned that Por Sing and several other Zemindars had already sent in assurances that they were wholly with them, and would be here, with guns to batter down the walls, some time tomorrow.
I think so; he asked me to wait until tomorrow afternoon before going out with a flag of truce, and said that by that time he would get the otherZemindars to stand by him, and would make terms whether the Sepoys liked it or not.
They were conducted to the great tent where all the Zemindars and the principal officers of the Sepoys were assembled.
Just as they were ready, Por Sing and several of the Zemindars rode up on horseback.
Their wealthy classes do lead a somewhat effeminate life, but their zemindars and peasantry are undoubtedly brave.
None of the Company's other zemindars are permitted to maintain them; and even our ally, the Nabob of the Carnatic, has the Company's troops in all his garrisons.
All through the dark months of August and September, zemindars were urged by district officers to deal leniently with their tenants, and aid them by all means in their power.
Bengal is not indebted to its zemindarsfor any of the new staples which have created so vast a volume of wealth.
It is a fact that certain zemindars are in the habit of remeasuring their ryots' holdings periodically, and always finding more land than was set forth in the lease.
Under the cast-iron law of sale most of the original zemindars lost their estates, which passed into the hands of parvenus saturated with commercialism.
Zemindars (landed proprietors) generally have to wait for months and spend money like water before they gain a pice (a bronze coin worth a farthing) from a new market.
Zemindars were presented with the land for which they had been mere rakers-in of revenue.
In the afternoon, while rambling about the crow's nests of Lamieroo, I discovered by chance a very curious temple in course of construction, and a number of Lamas and Zemindars superintending the proceedings.
The Zemindars here pay but two rupees a year to the Maharajah, but it seems a hard case that such hardly-subsisting people should have to pay anything whatever in such a sterile dreary territory as they possess.
There remained the reading of papers, filled with words unintelligible to English ears, with lacs and crores, zemindars and aumils, sunnuds and perwannahs, jaghires and nuzzurs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "zemindars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
