Persian · noun · Nation, Faith & Society

Zamindari

ज़मींदारी

said za-meen-DAA-ree

also written: zamindari

Meaning

The estate, rights and revenue domain of a zamindar; the system of landholding based on such intermediaries.

Literally: the office of a zamindar

Related words

A landowner or landlord; holder of land and its revenue.

A land-revenue system in which the state settled and collected revenue directly from the individual cultivator, without a zamindar intermediary.