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Mehtab Chand (1820–79) (zamindar of the Burdwan Raj) as a young man, c. 1840–45 AD.. When Babur conquered North India, there were many autonomous and semiautonomous rulers who were known locally as Rai, Raja, Rana, Rao, Rawat, etc. while in the various Persian chronicles, they were referred to as zamindars and marzabans.
One of the few Muslim zamindars in the region, at a time when the territories were mainly ruled by the Hindu raj families (Royal families), the Singra Zamindari family or Singranatore Zamindars were descended from former mansabdars as hereditary Mirzas; a cadet branch of the Imperial family of India, they descended from a perso-Turkic dynasty.
The zamindars also had policing, judicial and administrative functions. The zamindars were integral to Mughal government in Bengal. They were also known as jagirdars. Under Company rule in India, the Cornwallis Code introduced the Permanent Settlement. Zamindars were made responsible for collecting taxes on behalf of the colonial government.
The most well known among the zamindars was P. Subbarayan who served as Chief Minister of the Madras Presidency from 1926 to 1930. His son, Mohan Kumaramangalam , daughter Parvathi Krishnan and grandson Rangarajan Kumaramangalam have all served as members of the upper house of the Indian Parliament the Lok Sabha .
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The majority of these zamindars usually belonged to upper-caste Hindu communities such as Maithil Brahmins, Bhumihar Brahmins, Rajputs, Kayasthas or Muslims. The Bhumihar Brahmins and Rajputs holded approximately 73 percent of the total land area in Bihar with little other enterprise, land ownership in State which shows the dominance and power ...