A zemindar is an Indian subject, and as such exposed to the common lot of his fellows.

_The mean and depraved state of a mere zemindar_ is therefore this very dependence above mentioned on a despotic government, this very proneness to shake off his allegiance, and this very exposure to continual danger from his sovereign's jealousy, which are consequent on the political state of Hindostanic governments.

Bulwant Sing, if he had been, and Cheyt Sing, as long as he was a zemindar, stood exactly in this _mean and depraved state_ by the constitution of his country.

I did not make it for him, but would have secured him from it.

Those who made him a zemindar entailed upon him the consequences of so mean and depraved a tenure.
Aliverdy Khan and Cossim Ali fined all their zemindars on the necessities of war, and on every pretence either of court necessity or court extravagance." My Lords, you have now heard the principles on which Mr.Hastings governs the part of Asia subjected to the British empire.