Despite hailing from a zamindari background, she raised her voice against the tyranny of the zamindars. |
Atman's ancestors left their homeland due to the cruel exploitation by the zamindars, besides excruciating poverty and disease. |
In the forties the membership was spread among upper middle class officials and professionals, rajas and zamindars. |
Newly prosperous Jat zamindars and peasants, anxious for recognition, responded to Banda's egalitarian appeal. |
Land ownership was redistributed to British-selected zamindars, by using excuses of human rights abuses of the prior owners or rulers. |
In times like the present, the stories of nawabs, zamindars and khan bahadurs may not have the kind of appeal that they once had. |