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role of zamindar?
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Akanksha Bhardwaj 8 years, 3 months ago

~ Zamindars were landed proprietors enjoyed social and economic privileges. 

~ elevated status as they performed certain services (khidmat) for the state .

~ held extensive personal lands as milkiyat , meaning property . They could sell , mortgage that land .

~ they could often collect revenue on behalf of the state.

~ they could control military resources .

~ had fortreses the armed contingent .

~ upper caste Brahmanas and rajputs had full control over village society.

~ the dispositions of weaker people was a way of expanding zamindari .

~ few lower caste also entered into zamindari .

~ rajputs and jats adopted various strategies to consolidate power in north India .

~ zamindars spearheaded the colonisation of agricultural lands & helped in settling cultivators .

 

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