Faridpur Biswas Estate
The Faridpur Biswas Estate was a vast zamindar Estate (land), estate in the Faridpur District, Faridpur region of Bangladesh for 400 years. It was originally a Mughal Bengal, Mughal endowment. It later became an estate after the Permanent Settlement. The British substantially reduced the size of the estate by auctioning off most of the land. The family retained a small portion of the original estate under British rule, which was based in Biswas Bari in Chandpur. In the 20th century, several members of the family contributed to politics and public service. By the end of the 19th century, the estate was divided into four branches, including Biswas Bari, Moyez Manzil, Borobari, and Chowdhury Bari. It was one of the ten largest estates in the Bengal Presidency. Geography In 1923, the Faridpur Biswas Estate covered 4,000 sq km of territory in the Bengal Presidency. It was one of the ten largest estates in British Bengal with landholdings in Faridpur District, Faridpur, Rajbari Distric ...
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Zamindar
A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal lord of a ''zamindari'' (feudal estate). The term itself came into use during the Mughal Empire, when Persian was the official language; ''zamindar'' is the Persian for ''landowner''. During the British Raj, the British began using it as a local synonym for "estate". Zamindars as a class were equivalent to lords and barons; in some cases, they were independent sovereign princes. Similarly, their holdings were typically hereditary and came with the right to collect taxes on behalf of imperial courts or for military purposes. During the Mughal Empire, as well as the British rule, zamindars were the land-owning nobility of the Indian subcontinent and formed the ruling class. Emperor Akbar granted them mansabs and their ancestral domains were treated as jagirs. Most of the big zamindars belonged to the Hindu high-caste, usually Brahmin, Rajput, Bhumihar, or Kayastha. During the colonial era, ...
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