(India, historical) A village landholder who paid rent directly to the sovereign; an aristocratic landowner in India.
(India, historical) A village landholder who paid rent directly to the sovereign; an aristocratic landowner in India.
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A historical South Indian term referring to a hereditary land tenure system in which rights to cultivate particular land were passed down through generations within a family. The mirasi system was significant in the social and agricultural organisation of parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh during the colonial period.
(India, historical) The tenure of a mirasidar.
(India, historical) A kind of tenant landholder in India.
(India, historical) A gratuity in the form of deductions from the gross produce of cultivated lands, granted to a mirasidar.
(India, historical) A subtenant who leased land from a patnidar (and possibly further sublet it).