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<div>'''Jotedars''' (spelled also as joadder, joardar, jotder, jwadder) were "wealthy peasants" who comprised one layer of [[social stratification|social strata]] in agrarian [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]] during [[Company rule in India]]. They were also known as Haoladars,gantidars Or mandals .Jotedars owned relatively extensive tracts of [[land]]; their [[land tenure]] status stood in contrast to those of under-ryots and [[bargadar]]s ([[sharecropper]]s), who were landless or land-poors. Many jotedars were [[bhadralok]]s (upper [[caste system in India|caste]] members) who adopted the ''de jure'' status of [[ryot]] (peasant) solely for the financial benefit that the [[Bengal Tenancy Act (1885)|Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885]] afforded to ryots. Others belonged to the intermediate landowning peasant castes such as [[Sadgop]]s, [[Aguri (caste)|Aguri]]s,<br />
[[Mahishya]]s, [[Rajbongshi people|Rajbongshis]], [[Shershahabadia]] and the rural, less educated Brahmins. By the 1920s a gentrified fraction of Jotedars emerged from the more prosperous peasants among the tribes such as [[Santhal people|Santhals]] and the Scheduled Castes such as the [[Bagdi]] and the [[Namasudra]]s<ref>{{Cite book |last=Iqbal |first=I. |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYslngEACAAJ |title=The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840-1943 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |page=107 |isbn=978-0-230-23183-2}}</ref><br />
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Jotedars were pitted against the [[Naxalite]] movement.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=The Naxalite Movement that was Not in Naxalbari |url=http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1416.html |magazine=Mainstream |access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Naxalbari revisited |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Naxalbari-revisited/articleshow/47044695.cms |newspaper=The Times of India |access-date=2016-04-30}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:History of Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:Indian feudalism]]<br />
[[Category:History of agriculture in India]]<br />
[[Category:British East India Company]]</div>2405:205:1200:82DB:0:0:101B:70A4