mauzadar

English

Alternative forms

• mouzadar
• mazumdar

Etymology

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Noun

mauzadar (plural mauzadars)

1. (now historical) An administrative official responsible for a mauza in British Assam.
   • 1978, SM Dubey, North East India: A Sociological Study, page 142:

     In Upper Assam, the mauzadars who might hail from outside the village were also very powerful at a time.

   • 2004, Mahendra Narain Karna, Agrarian Structure and Land Reforms in Assam, page 22:

     Only an influential and affluent resident of the concerned mauza was appointed as Mauzadar and was given the responsibility of collecting and depositing the land revenue demanded from his mauza by a stipulated date.

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     Was it a crime to belong to the Mauzadar’s family? Her mother had not chosen to be born in his house.