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Zamindar
thumb|Khwaja Salimullah was a zamindar with the title of [[Nawab. His family's landholdings in Bengal were one of the largest in British India.]]
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". Subsequently, it was widely and loosely used for any substantial landed magnates in British India. Zamindars as a cl
Deshmukh
Deshmukh (IAST: Dēśamukh) is a historical title conferred to the rulers of a . It is used as a surname in certain regions of India, especially in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana and also in Andhra Pradesh and northern parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, Goa whose family received it as a title.

Veer Narayan Singh
Indian activist
Ranvir Sena
Upper-caste landlord group in Bihar, India