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Zamindars of Bengal
Central Bengal
Present Divisions: Dhaka and Mymensingh
Baliati
Mohera
Bhawal
Dhaka
Karatia
Eastern Bengal
Present Divisions: Chittagong and Sylhet
Baniachong
Barshala
Bohmong
Chakma
Homnabad-Pashchimgaon
Kanihati
Mong
Panchakhanda
Prithimpassa
Sandwip
Northern Bengal
Present Divisions: Rangpur and Rajshahi
Dighapatia
Gunahar, Bogra
Tajhat, Rangpur
Mahipur, Rangpur
Natore
Dulai, Pabna
Puthia
Queen Bhabai Estate of Rajshahi (Natore)
Dinajpur
Singranatore
Southern Bengal
Present Divisions: Barishal, Khulna and Faridpur
Chandradwip
Haturia
Padamdi
Western Bengal
Andul rajbari
Azimganj
Baruipur
Bawali
Burdwan
Dhanyakuria
Gobardanga
Hetampur
Jhargram
Karnagarh
Mahishadal
Murshidabad
Nadia
Narajole
Nashipur
Serampur
Shibpur
Sovabazar
Surul
Taki
Uttarpara
Mallick Bari
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The Zamindars of Bengal were zamindars (hereditary landlords) of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent (now divided between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal). They governed an ancient system of land ownership.
The Bengali zamindars managed a plantation economy in the Bengal Presidency which produced cotton, jute, indigo, rice, wheat, tea, spices and other commodities. Like the British landed gentry, they were bestowed with titles; their plantation economy has been studied by many scholars and can be compared with historic plantation complexes in the Southern United States. The land was cultivated by tenant farmers who paid rent to the zamindars. A big portion of the rent was in turn paid to the imperial government as taxes. The zamindars were the principal revenue collectors for the imperial administration under Mughal and British rule. The system was abolished by 1951. The Zamindars of Bengal were generally less powerful and had less autonomy than the Zamindars of Bihar who were able to maintain standing armies of their own.[1]
The British entrenched the precolonial zamindari system through the Permanent Settlement. The zamindars dominated most of the villages in Bengal by collecting rent from tenant cultivators.[2]
The zamindari system mirrored the European system of serfdom.[3] Bengali zamindars were often recognised with titles like Maharaja, Nawab and Khan Bahadur but they never ruled over princely states. With Bengal being the most populous and politically influential province in British India, Bengali zamindars were the most politically influential landed gentry in British India.
^Kumkum Chatterjee (1996). Merchants, Politics, and Society in Early Modern India: Bihar, 1733-1820. BRILL. pp. 31–32. ISBN 90-04-10303-1.
^Markovits, Claude, ed. (2002) [First published 1994 as Histoire de l'Inde Moderne]. A History of Modern India, 1480–1950. London: Anthem Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-1-84331-004-4.
^U. A. B. Razia Akter Banu (1992). Islam in Bangladesh. BRILL. pp. 21–. ISBN 90-04-09497-0.
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