zamindary
zamindary is the alternative form of zamindari.
Meaning of zamindari
Noun
zamindari (countable and uncountable, plural zamindaris)
- In British India, a system used to collect revenues from the ryots (cultivators of agricultural land) indirectly through the zamindars, as opposed to ryotwari, where revenues were collected directly.
- The office or jurisdiction of a zamindar.
- To it came all the north-western and south-western zamindaris, which fell naturally into the new tahsils of Bemetara and Sanjari-Balod respectively (Gunderdehi was subsequently transferred from Sanjari to the Drug tahsil in 1907).1926, C. F. Waterfall, Final Report on the Re-settlement of the Raipur and Drug Zamindaris in the Central Provinces
- The land possessed by a zamindar.
Forms of zamindary
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- Zamindary is the alternative form of zamindari.
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