| Land ownership was redistributed to British-selected zamindars, by using excuses of human rights abuses of the prior owners or rulers. |
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| In the forties the membership was spread among upper middle class officials and professionals, rajas and zamindars. |
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| In times like the present, the stories of nawabs, zamindars and khan bahadurs may not have the kind of appeal that they once had. |
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| Despite hailing from a zamindari background, she raised her voice against the tyranny of the zamindars. |
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| Atman's ancestors left their homeland due to the cruel exploitation by the zamindars, besides excruciating poverty and disease. |
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| Newly prosperous Jat zamindars and peasants, anxious for recognition, responded to Banda's egalitarian appeal. |
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| He persuaded the big zamindars of the Malabar region, whose sons were his students, to part with large tracts of land, which was then mainly jungle. |
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| As a result, throughout northern India zamindars either revolted violently or simply refused to pay assessed revenues. |
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| Many of the biggest zamindars are said to have private prisons, and some have private militias. |
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| They relied on support from kinsfolk, peasants, and smaller zamindars of their own castes. |
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| Many zamindars blame bonded labour on rawaj, centuries-old local customs. |
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| Bangladeshi martial arts evolved in villages where zamindars employed large private armies to protect their landholdings. |
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| Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees. |
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| Forced labour of the peasants by the zamindars became more prevalent as cash crops were cultivated to meet the Company revenue demands. |
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| The power of the zamindars, who were mainly Brahmin or Rajput, was challenged in a series of peasant movements between 1919 and 1921, when Charan Singh was in his late teens. |
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| According to the Permanent Settlement if the Zamindars failed to pay the revenue on time, the Zmaindari right would be taken from them. |
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| By the terms of the settlement Rajas and Taluqdars were recognised as Zamindars and they were asked to collect the rent from the peasants and pay revenue to the Company. |
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