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LANDLORDS

A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, land or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a lessee or a tenant. Landlord is also called a lessor or the owner. Peasants were bound to the land and dependent on their landlords for protection and justice. A zamindar or zemindar on the Indian subcontinent was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and held control over his peasants, from whom the zamindars reserved the right to collect tax.

The lives of agricultural labourers who were toiling like slaves was always filled with misery. The landlord-tenant relation was based on caste system. Some specific tasks in agriculture were given to women alone. The agricultural labourers used to receive paddy and money in advance. In return they worked
throughout the year for the landlord. Apart from the agricultural work, they were made to do menial jobs like milking the cows, collecting the cow-dung, bathing the cows etc. They used to work from dawn to dusk. Often the landlords would punish them severely.


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