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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.


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