Zamindar

As Zamindar (plural: zamindars or zamindars, occasionally zamindari; literally means " land owner " ) was originally referred primarily the person who had the honor to collect the taxes for the Mughal emperor from a particular region in the Mughal Empire in India, to then forwarded to him. This leads to the practice developed that the entire system has been designated as feudal Zamindar system. For the Mughal period, but also at later times, the term Zamindar was also used synonymously for landlords. After all, you Zamindar used to refer to free farmers.

The Indian zamindar system was abolished in the context of independence from Britain in 1947. In the former East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), where it is still continued to exist until 1950, after its secession from India, it was dissolved after the formation of Bangladesh. In Pakistan it is still living in this system, especially in Sindh and Punjab. In Sindh, however, the wording is nowadays not Zamindar, but Wadara. In Punjab, the zamindars Chaudhari or Malik hot.