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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