"zamindar" meaning in English

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          "text": "1861, Henry Mayhew et al., London Labour and the London Poor, London: C. Griffin, Volume 4, p. 120,\nIn Bengal there were […] many female zemindars, or village revenue administrators, who were, however, subject to the influence, but not to the authority, of the male members of their family."
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          "ref": "1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 2, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 63",
          "text": "An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality―a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.",
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          "text": "Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees.",
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          "text": "Thus it happened that the approach of the Ibis was witnessed by Raja Neel Rattan Halder, the zemindar of Raskhali, who was on board the palatial barge with his eight-year-old son and a sizeable retune of attendants.",
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          "word": "জমিদার"
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