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In [[Bangladesh]], a '''mridha''' is a first class commander of armed men under the employ of a ''[[zamindar]]'' (landlord) in pre British period, used as security guards, against uncooperative tenants, and against the forces of other ''zamindars'' in land disputes. During the ''[[Mughal Empire|mughal]] '' era it is considered that a part of '''Mridha''' were the elite class archers of mughal archery unit who lived around and within the parts of '' [[Dhaka]] '', '' [[Tangail]]'' and '' [[Bikrampur]] ''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chatterjee |first=Partha |author-link=Partha Chatterjee (scholar) |year=2002 |title=A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/princelyimpostor00chat_1/page/29 29] |isbn=978-0-691-09031-3 |quote=Most of the larger zamindari establishments consisted of a considerable number—sometimes half or more of all estate employees—of armed men, called ''jamadar'', ''mridha'', ''peyada'', ''paik'', and so on, who were used against recalcitrant tenants. |url=https://archive.org/details/princelyimpostor00chat_1 |url-access=registration }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Islam |first=Sirajul |year=2012 |chapter=Lathial |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Lathial |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

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