Category:Zamindar
Theme Analysis
The history of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition features numerous interactions with the zamindars, the powerful landholders and estate managers of India. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that these individuals wielded immense material influence, acting as tax collectors and administrators under the ruling government. While some zamindars utilized their vast financial resources piously by constructing magnificent temples, others became intoxicated by their opulence. Proud and atheistic landholders, such as Rāmacandra Khān, developed deep envy toward pure devotees and actively attempted to cause their spiritual falldown. Ultimately, the history of the zamindars serves to highlight the supreme glory of renunciation, best exemplified by exalted personalities like Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who completely rejected his fabulous zamindar inheritance to fully surrender to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
- Administrators and Tax Collectors: The zamindars functioned as powerful landholders and estate managers within the government, levying taxes, maintaining lands, and collecting tolls on roads utilized by pilgrims.
- Material Envy and Offenses: Intoxicated by wealth and power, some zamindars became deeply envious of pure devotees and committed severe offenses against exalted personalities like Haridāsa Ṭhākura.
- Contributions to Temple Worship: Not all landholders were atheistic; several prominent zamindars utilized their vast wealth to construct magnificent temples and facilitate Deity worship across Bengal.
- The Glory of Supreme Renunciation: The ultimate spiritual instruction is found in the lives of pure devotees who completely rejected the fabulous opulence of their zamindar families to embrace a life of severe austerity and devotion.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Role and Position of the Zamindar in Vaiṣṇava History.
Pages in category "Zamindar"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- A landholder named Ramacandra Khan was the zamindar of that district. He was envious of Vaisnavas and was therefore a great atheist
- And as a retaliation, the common people have bereft them (the princes and zamindars) of their kingdom: "No more kingdom, because you always supported Britishers." It is a great politics
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- Generally, this tax was collected to maintain the roads governed by the various zamindars. Since the devotees from Bengal were going to Jagannatha Puri, they had to pass through many such toll booths. Sivananda Sena was in charge of paying the tolls
- Ghati refers to the different toll booths used by the zamindars to collect taxes in each state
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- He (Rupa Gosvami) was minister. Who can become his friend unless he is also a very big man? So Rupa Gosvami gave up their (big, big leaders, zamindars, big, big men) company
- He (the brahmana) said that since he was very happy in his householder life, taking rice given by his disciples and cooking vegetables of tamarind leaves, there was no question of taking help from the Zamindar - Raja Krsnacandra
- He (the local zamindars, or landholders) would keep one fourth of the collection for himself as a profit, and the balance he would deliver to the treasury of the government
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- Since Uddharana Datta Thakura was the manager of the estate, it was also known as Uddharana-pura. Uddharana Datta Thakura installed Nitai-Gaura Deities that were later brought to the house of the zamindar, which was known as Vanaoyaribada
- Some time ago, the zamindars of Bajaravana Kabasi, the Mulliks, constructed a big house for the purpose of a temple, but for the last sixty-five years the temple has been broken down and abandoned
- Sri Buddhimanta Khan was one of the inhabitants of Navadvipa. He was very rich, and it is he who arranged for the marriage of Lord Caitanya with Visnupriya, the daughter of Sanatana Misra, who was the priest of the local zamindar
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya - The temple of Krsna Raya, which was constructed in the year 1708 Sakabda (A.D. 1786) by a prominent zamindar named Nimai Mullik of Pathuriya-ghata in Calcutta, is very large
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya - This temple (which is present nearby Raghava Pandita’s tomb) is managed by a local zamindar of the name Sri Sivacandra Raya Caudhuri. Makaradhvaja Kara was also an inhabitant of Panihati
- Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami was most probably born in the year 1416 Sakabda (A.D. 1494) in a kayastha family as the son of Govardhana Majumadara, who was the younger brother of the then zamindar, Hiranya Majumadara
- Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami was the son of a big zamindar of his time
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- The districts of Nadia, Islampura and Bagoyana were all under the zamindar named Hari Hoda or his descendant known as Hoda Krsnadasa
- The Gosvamis were ministers in the government service of Bengal, and Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami was the son of a big zamindar of his time. But they left everything to gain something superior to what they previously possessed
- The original Deity of Mahesapura, Radhavallabha, was taken by the Saidabad Gosvamis of Berhampur, and since the present Deities were installed, a zamindar family of Mahesapura has looked after Their worship
- The phaujadara, or city magistrate, was called the kaji (Kazi). The jamidaras (zamindars), or landholders (mandaleras), levied taxes on the land, but keeping law and order and punishing criminals was the duty entrusted to the Kazi
- The village Ambika-kalana, which is situated just across the river Ganges from Santipura, is two miles east of the Kalana-korta railway station, on the Eastern Railway. In Ambika-kalana there is a temple constructed by the zamindar of Burdwan
- These Gosvamis left their very comfortable lives as ministers. Zamindars and learned scholars and joined Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement, just to show mercy to the fallen souls of the world - dina-ganesakau karunaya