While many zamindars were facing a crisis at the end of the eighteenth century, a group of rich peasants was consolidating their position in the villages. In Francis Buchanan’s survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal, we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as jotedars.

Which of the following term was not used for the jotedars?

Lathyal

In some places the jotedras were called haoladars, elsewhere they were known as gantidars or mandals.