In the 1940s, the villain was the zamindar, or landlord, who exploited the oppressed farmers, he noted. |
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In many of the more backward parts of Pakistan, the local feudal zamindar, or landowner, can expect his people to vote for his chosen candidate. |
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More generally in north India, zamindar denoted the cultivator of the soil or joint proprietors holding village lands in common as joint heirs. |
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Under the Mughal system, the land itself belonged to the state and not to the zamindar, who could transfer only his right to collect rent. |
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Meanwhile, the zamindar — feudal lord — of a village twenty miles upstream from the dam called the police about a white Toyota Corolla that had been abandoned by the canal, in the shade of a banyan tree. |
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For example, Cornwallis recommended turning Bengali Zamindar into the sort of English landlords that controlled local affairs in England. |
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Following the completing a three-and-a-half year tenure during which the company was reconstructed and re-formed, the Ex-CEO and board member Naeem Zamindar resigned. |
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