zamindar
Noun
Meaning
A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
His father was a subordinate revenue official in the service of a local zamindar (landlord).
The Dhaka Nawab Family was one of the wealthiest sections of Dhaka's colonial aristocracy, which included hundreds of Bengali zamindar families.
There are conflicting reports on concerning his date of birth ; his personal admission noted the birth year as 1940, while the UN reports estimated as 1938. citation His father, Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif, was a local Zamindar (lit.
She is a daughter of a King or Zamindar of a small, princely state in India.
Thus, a Jagirdar, Deshmukh, Patil and Zamindar are closely equivalent to a Duke.