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Zemindar

Zemindar [fr. two words signifying earth, land, and holder or keeper],

holder of a particular employment or office, as Chobdar, Staff-holder; Zemindar, landholder. This compound word with i, ee, y, added to

the charge of a country on the removal of a zemindar, or for any other particular purpose of local investigation of

of a country, either on the part of the government zemindar or renter, Ibid.

revenue servant under a European collector and even of a Zemindar. By this title the East India Company were receivers-general of

which a payer of revenue, whether to the government, the zemindar, or the farmer, expresses his consent to pay the amount

a military chieftain in the peninsula, answer-ing to a hill zemindar in the northern circars, Indian.

native collector of a district acting under a European or Zemindar, Indian.

Zemindary, the office and jurisdiction of a zemindar.-Ibid.

promissory note given by a native banker or moneylender to zemindars and others, to enable them to furnish government with security