A historical term from colonial India for a farmer or cultivator who holds land in exchange for paying rent. The mustajir occupied a specific legal and economic position in the landowning hierarchy of the subcontinent, distinct from both the landowner above and the sharecropper below. The term is now primarily of historical interest.
The mustajir paid his seasonal dues to the zamindar and continued working the same fields his father had.
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(India, historical) A farmer who pays rent.
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