zemindar

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English

Noun

zemindar (plural zemindars)

  1. Alternative spelling of zamindar
    • 1840, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Papers on the Cultivation of Cotton in India, London, page 62:
      The land should, when procurable on such terms, be rented from the Zemindar, or the person to whom it has been let; and the rentee should engage to plough, and sow the land and reap the crop, []