Set in 1941, the movie explores life in rural bengal, the realities of the Zamindari system that was responsible for much of the social inequalities in bengal, as well as the changes in social perceptions with time.
Kisorilal Roy Chowdhury, the Zamindar of Baliati in Tangail, who had previously established Jagannath College named after his father Jagannath Saha, also established this hall of Dhaka University.
He hailed from a wealthy family of Zamindars and was the munsiff for Injaram during the British rule.
The Pogose School, the first private school in the country, was founded by JG Nicholas Pogose, a merchant and a zamindar.
The daughter of Narayandas Agrwal of Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, a prominent citizen and a proponent of Indian's independence, she was married at the age of 11 to Dharmakumar, the 18 year old grandson of the zamindar and scholar Prabhudas Jain of Arrah.
Kazemuddin Siddiky was born in 1876 into an aristocratic Muslim zamindar family hailing from Baliadi in the present day district of Gazipur.
The establishment of the town and the name "Gauripur" has an interesting story associated with the main architect of Gauripur, Raza Pratap Chandra Baruah, Zamindar of Rangamati.
The three villages were part of the khas mahal or imperial jagir (an estate belonging to the Mughal emperor himself), whose zemindari rights were held by the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family of Barisha.
As a Sanskrit and Vaishnava scholar, Kashiram was patronized by a zamindar family in Midnapore, and ran a pAThshAlA (small school) there.
The French bought it from Matiullah, whose father, Sheikh Enayetullah, a zamindar of Jamalpur pargana in Barisal during Mughals reign, built it as his Rang Mahal (pleasure house).
Muthuramalinga Sethupathi II (1841–1873) was the zamindar of Ramnad estate from 1862 to 1873.
Haji Noor Mohammad was the zamindar of the two major areas of Ratu and Kadru of the Ranchi district, capital city of the present-day state of Jharkhand in India.
Parbati Sankar Roy Choudhury, (c. 1850-1918) was the zamindar of Teota (now in Manikganj District, Bangladesh) and a philanthropic landholder.
The village is also home to the Mukhiya family of the Dahiya Gotra, one of the few Jat Zamindar (landed aristocracy) families of western UP.
Dhanabhagyam, the daughter-in-law of Vaidyanatha Pillai, the zamindar of Poondi was murdered under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of 21 October 1911.
The audacious dacoity was committed in broad daylight by a group of revolutionaries at the residence of the zamindar of Barrah, under the Nawabganj police station in the district of Dhaka.
Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, a subsequent zamindar of Raipur, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Sinha, of Raipur, in 1919, becoming the first Indian member of the British House of Lords,
Born in Chhatin gram,Thana: Adamdighi, Bogra District, Bhabani was married off to Raja Ramkanta, the then zamindar of Rajshahi.
Rao Nandlal Chaudhary (or Nandlal Mandloi) was the chief of the Zamindars of Kampel, Indore.
Ras Behari Lal Mandal was an elected zamindar in All India Congress Committee.
In 1897, he purchased the zamindari of Andipatti from the Madras government and became its zamindar.
Hathwa Raj was a zamindari in the Saran Division of Bihar belonging to Bhumihar Brahmins which encompassed 1,365 villages, was inhabited by more than 391,000 people, and produced an annual rental of almost a million rupees.
After the 1853 invasion by General Charles Napier, Sindh was divided into provinces and assigned to Zamindars (or landlords) to collect taxes for the British.
Kasula Purushottama Kavi, a poet under patronage of Zamindar of Challapalli in diviseema region of Andhra Pradesh wrote Āndhra Nāyaka Satakam dedicated to the Lord of the temple.
After the 1843 invasion by Charles Napier, Sindh was divided into provinces and was assigned a Zamindars, also known as Wadaras, to collect taxes for the British.
Born in a Brahmin family of Zamindars, in Faridnagar, Uttar Pradesh,He was a post graduate topper in Hindi literature from Allahabad University (1941),He had a love of writing,he shifted to Delhi in 1942 with his patriotic thoughts and non political writings.