Less than a week after the opposition parties met in Patna to oppose him, Narendra Modi threw a huge spanner into their works – the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). It was a philosophic challenge, also a ...

Zamindars or land owners were once feared and despised in equal measure. Not only were they bestowed with titles such as raja, maharaja, and nawab, they also had the mandate to collect taxes on behalf ...

Some 12 million Indians last week celebrated an independence day of their own with laughter and tears, street parades, community sings and free candy for the kids. In the state of Uttar Pradesh it was ...

Peasants, Zamindars and the State Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire (c. sixteenth- seventeenth centuries) Class 12 MCQs: This article provides a comprehensive list of MCQs prepared for revision ...

CPI MP D Raja has said that SEZ was a kind of "land grab" which had created new and "modern zamindars" and it had debased the life of farmers. NEW DELHI: Special economic zones came in for criticism ...

Bangladesh Unlocked shares the history of the Zamindars in the Indian Sub-continent, who were officials employed by the Mughals and the British colonial rulers to collect taxes from peasants. Global ...

The erstwhile zamindars of Bihar celebrate Durga Puja with great fervour, some of them beginning preparations months earlier. In the other three erstwhile big zamindaris - Bettiah Raj in West ...

It also observed that some police station officers-in-charge and deputy commissioners or DCs heading district administration consider themselves zamindars. The court on Tuesday refused Moazzem bail in ...

Malda, April 1: Eight years after it was declared a subdivision, Chanchol is set to have its own judicial magistrate’s court, which will be housed in a stately mansion that once belonged to the local ...