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| Rich peasants in Bengal were referred to as: |
bargadars Jotedars adhiyars mandals |
| Jotedars |
| In Francis Buchanans survey of the Dinajpur district in North Bengal we have a vivid description of this class of rich peasants known as Jotedars. By the early nineteenth century, Jotedars had acquired vast areas of land sometimes as much as several thousand acres. They controlled local trade as well as money lending, exercising immense power over the poorer cultivators of the region. A large part of their land was cultivated through sharecroppers (adhiyars or bargadars) who brought their own ploughs, laboured in the field, and handed over half the produce to the Jotedars after the harvest. |
