A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal lord of a zamindari. The term itself came into use during the Mughal Empire, when Persian was the official language; z
Khwaja Salimullah was a zamindar with the title of Nawab. His family's landholdings in Bengal were one of the largest in British India.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari, the seat of the Tagore family
Façade of the 300-year-old Bawali Rajbari, with Corinthian pillars, the seat of the Bawali Raj family
Mehtab Chand (1820–79) (zamindar of the Burdwan Raj) as a young man, c. 1840–45 AD.
The Thakur family, anglicized as Tagore family was a prominent family from Bengal who were regarded as one of the consequential benefactors during the Bengali Renaissance. They were best known for the
Jorasanko Thakur Bari, the Zamindari seat of the Tagore family