COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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OFFICALS
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ZAMINDARS
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HAOLADARS
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TALUQDAR
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Detailed explanation-1: -The village headman is also known as the Patla.
Detailed explanation-2: -Historian S. Nurul Hasan divided the zamindars into three categories: (i) The Autonomous Rai/ Rajas or Chiefs, (ii) the intermediary zamindars and (iii) the primary zamindars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jotedar, a group of rich peasants, acquired vast areas of land. They controlled local trade as well as moneylending, exercising immense power over the poorer cultivators of the region. Jotedars were called as haoladars in some places and elsewhere they were known as gantidars or mandals.
Detailed explanation-4: -Jotedars were landed peasentry who used to own large tracts of land. Zamindars were the owners of land, water, mountains, villages and almost everything under the sun. They generally were quite wealthy. The zamindars had the power to settle people on their lands, employ them for tilling if fields and other jobs.