The Zamindars of Bengal were zamindars (hereditary landlords) of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent (now divided between Bangladesh and the...

majority of these zamindars usually belonged to Hindu communities such as Rajputs, Bhumihars, Brahmins, Kayasthas or Muslims. The Forward Caste Zamindars also...

He defines zamindars as "vassal chiefs". He points out that there were areas under direct control of Mughals where there were no zamindars and then there...

aristocracy (see: Zamindars of Bengal) which was supposed to be loyal to the British Empire. The Act of 1885 defined the rights and liabilities of the peasants...

Zamindars of Bengal in response to the request made by Manikya to excavate the Amar Sagar Dighi at around 1580 AD. Besides, as the naval commander of...

remnants of Jewish, Armenian, Greek and Anglo-Indian communities. The city is closely linked with Bhadralok culture and the Zamindars of Bengal, including...

rajas and taluqdars of Bengal who were now classified as zamindars. They had to pay fixed revenue in perpetuity. Thus, zamindars were not the landowners...

the East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950, it became subordinate to the government. Later, the descendants of this zamindar house, like...

much of eastern Bengal. Other important officials were stationed in Patna, Cuttack, and Chittagong. The aristocracy was composed of the Zamindars of Bengal...

indebted to the zamindars. The peasants rented land from the zamindars and became tenant farmers. Strong control of land by the zamindars meant the British...

1837 as a political organization for zamindars. The founders of the association were prominent zamindars of Bengal; such as Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay...

Zamindars of Natore were influential aristocratic Bengali Zamindars (rent-receiving landholders), who owned large estates in what is today Natore District...

Empire broke out involving 12 Zamindars in Bengal, with Musa Khan among them. Pratapaditya, who had previously been an ally of the Mughal Empire, chose not...

The Bengal Tenancy Act 1885 was an enactment of the Bengal government that defined the rights of zamindars lords and their tenants in response to a widespread...

Nimtita zamindar Bari, often called Nimtita Rajbari, is an erstwhile zamindari palace which used to be the official residence of the zamindar family of Nimtita...

Raj family, seated at Sovabazar Palace in the Indian city of Kolkata, were the Zamindars of Shobhabazar. The clan begins with a Maharaja Naba Krishna...

(stick-fighting) was historically a method of duelling as a way to protect or take land and others' possessions. The Zamindars of Bengal would hire lathials (trained...

Hareram is one of the zamindars of Muktagacha. This Hareram house is now the Rajbari. Mezzo son of Srikrishna Acharya Chowdhury, the founder of Muktagacha...

eastern Bengal. The Baro-Bhuyan included twelve Muslim and Hindu leaders of the Zamindars of Bengal. They were led by Isa Khan, a former prime minister of the...

if the ruling zamindar named her as an heir. It was during the British rule, that the Zamindars of Bengal and Bihar became equivalents of the landed aristocracy...

dynasty of Zamindars and the rulers of territories that are now part of the Nadia district region of West Bengal, India. Their seat was at the city of Krishnanagar...

north Bengal, for example, Abdus Sattar Khan Chowdhury, a former BNP parliamentarian. History of Rajshahi Rabiul Karim, S. M. (2006). Rajshahi Zamindars: A...

British Bengal and Assam, based in present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh. The title of nawab, similar to the British peerage, was conferred upon the head of the family...

Sailendranath Choudhury until the abolition of zamindars by the West Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950. Jagtai Choudhury family originated from...

Jagirdar Mankari Lambardar Patwari Sarpanch Zamindar Princely state Zamindars of Bihar Zamindars of Bengal Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Madras (presidency)" ...

The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War...

Mymensingh of East Bengal during the time of the British Raj in India. The palace is located by the river Brahmaputra, in the heart of Mymensingh, Bangladesh...

zamindars; a Muslim landholder was raided in the same month for having disobeyed him. On 31 October, Titumir set to avenge a Bengali Hindu zamindar called...

an Islamic preacher who led a peasant uprising against the Hindu Zamindars of Bengal and the British during the 19th century. Along with his followers...

zamindari in Bengal (in modern-day Gazipur, Bangladesh) until it was abolished according to East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950. In the...