Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The system of tax collection by zamindars.
- noun The area administered by a zamindar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
zemindary , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical In
British India , a system used to collectrevenues from theryots (cultivators of agricultural land) indirectly through thezamindars , as opposed toryotwari , where revenues were collected directly.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To Westerners, the abolition of the zamindari system would seem to have been a sign of real independence and of the will to abolish feudalism.
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The article examines a concrete literary example offered by Vikram Seth in his novel A Suitable Boy, in which the author deals with the debate about peasants property in the form of land and about the abolition of the zamindari system, which had been icontinued by British rulers during the colonial period, but after independence in 1947 the system was ntroduced in India by the Mughals to collect land taxes from the peasants.
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To Westerners, the abolition of the zamindari system would seem to have been a sign of real independence and of the will to abolish feudalism.
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At independence, the district began with the advantages of the ryotwari system of land tenure, rather than the burdens of zamindari.
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The article examines a concrete literary example offered by Vikram Seth in his novel A Suitable Boy, in which the author deals with the debate about peasants property in the form of land and about the abolition of the zamindari system, which had been icontinued by British rulers during the colonial period, but after independence in 1947 the system was ntroduced in India by the Mughals to collect land taxes from the peasants.
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Seth's novel allows us to witness firsthand the events that took place during the period when the law that put an end to the zamindari system was passed and to see with new eyes the genuine impact of such a reform.
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Seth's novel allows us to witness firsthand the events that took place during the period when the law that put an end to the zamindari system was passed and to see with new eyes the genuine impact of such a reform.
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At independence, the district began with the advantages of the ryotwari system of land tenure, rather than the burdens of zamindari.
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Even after nearly six decades of ‘Independence’, five decades of zamindari abolition and four decades of green revolution, feudal remnants in India remain quite visibly powerful and stubborn.
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Long after the abolition of the zamindari system of landlordism in 1953, in
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