zamindar
noun
Historical in India,
- a collector of the revenue from land
- a landholder; specif., under British rule, an aristocratic landowner with extensive holdings
See zamindar in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also zem·in·dar (zămˈən-därˌ, zĕmˈ-, zə-mēn-därˈ)
noun- An official in precolonial India assigned to collect the land taxes of his district.
- A landholder in British colonial India responsible for collecting and paying to the government the taxes on the land under his jurisdiction.
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