Zemindar - Law Dictionary Search Results

is often joined with another to denote the holder of a particular employment or office, as Chobdar, Staff-holder; Zemindar, landholder. This compound word with i, ee, y, added to it, denotes the office, as Zemindar-ee, Indian.

Aumeen

commissioner; a temporary collector or supervisor, appointed to the charge of a country on the removal of a zemindar, or for any other particular purpose of local investigation of arrangement, Indian.

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Aumil

of revenue; superintendent of a district or division of a country, either on the part of the government zemindar or renter, Ibid.

Dewan, Duam

term is also used to designate the principal revenue servant under a European collector and even of a Zemindar. By this title the East India Company were receivers-general of the revenues of Bengal under a grant from

Kabooleat

of a revenue lease, or the document in which a payer of revenue, whether to the government, the zemindar, or the farmer, expresses his consent to pay the amount assessed upon his land.' (Wilson's Indian Glossary.)

Polligar, Polygar

the head of a village or district; also a military chieftain in the peninsula, answer-ing to a hill zemindar in the northern circars, Indian.

Tehsildar

one who has charge of the collections; a native collector of a district acting under a European or Zemindar, Indian.

Zemindary

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

Teep

Teep, a note of hand, a promissory note given by a native banker or moneylender to zemindars and others, to enable them to furnish government with security for the payment of their rents, Indian.

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