Zemindary
Usage examples for Zemindary:
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And then, the zemindary laws!
"Rung Ho!" – Talbot Mundy -
The British, for whom they had often fought because that way honor seemed to lie, had impoverished them afterward by passing and enforcing zemindary laws that lifted nine- tenths of the burden from the necks of starving tenants.
"Rung Ho!" – Talbot Mundy -
He obeyed the summons with alacrity and gave the poor woman sound advice regarding the direction of the Zemindary
"Tales of Bengal" – S. B. Banerjea -
And it appears that the said alarm was far from groundless; for Major Palmer, one of the secret and confidential agents of the said Hastings, hath sworn, on the 4th of December, 1781, at the desire of the said Warren Hastings, before Sir Elijah Impey, to the following effect, that is to say: " That the said Warren Hastings had told him, the said Palmer, that he, the said Hastings, had rejected the offer of two hundred thousand pounds made by the Rajah of Benares for the public service, and that he was resolved to convert the faults committed by the Rajah into a public benefit, and would exact the sum of five hundred thousand pounds, as a punishment for his breach of engagements with the government of Bengal, and acts of misconduct in his zemindary and if the Rajah should absolutely refuse the demand, that he would deprive him of his zemindary or transfer the sovereignty thereof to the Nabob of Oude."
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12)" – Edmund Burke