Lambardar

In the Malwa region of Punjab and the states of Haryana, Himachal, Delhi, Uttra Khand, Uttar Pradesh, etc., the official term in the land revenue acts is numberdar.

In Majha dialect of Punjabi language, the sound L become N, such as langhna (pass) and nambardar (percentage revenue holder) become naghna and lambardar respectively.

[4] Currently both terms, are easily substituted across India and Pakistan, including in the land revenue acts of Uttar Pradesh.

Slowly prominent farmers came into the possession of large lands, and they acquired the status of proprietors of the village estate and were recorded as such during the settlement of 1840-41 by the British Raj.

These estates came to be known as zamindari or pattidari tenures, most influential and the largest estate-holders among them in due time became zaildars and lambardars.

The British even used them as a localised dispute ombudsman and gave these big zamindars some moral policing rights.

Each estate is individually assessed by a Patwari and its record of rights and register of fiscal and agricultural statistics maintained separately.

Under the Digital India initiative, some states have taken to cutting delays in paying honorarium, set as percentage of the revenue collected from the respective estate, via the regular direct electronic transfer, the Government of Haryana is one such example.

After the 1947, both nations have made changes to the land revenue acts, leading to some differences in the practice and implementation, though the basic concept remains same.

Most Presidents and prime ministers also have been from feudal stock, with the exception of martial law administrators and generals, who led coups.