zamindar

1. (South Asia, historical) An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.Examples: "1861, Henry Mayhew et al., London Labour and the London Poor, London: C. Griffin, Volume 4, p. 120, In Bengal there were […] many female zemindars, or village revenue administrators, who were, however, subject to the influence, but not to the authority, of the male members of their family."; "An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality―a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood."; "Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees."South-Asiahistorical