What you might want to tell your reader, that Jamidars were often much better or much worse than just land barons. At one end it was Tagore family for example, consisting literary giants, noble laureate, and pillars of the social structure of British India and Renaissance of Undivided Bengal. At the other end they can be as ruthless as they come as a tormenting monster for the common peasants at the time. And of course everything in between.
Point is, these buildings and families talk about a long forgotten time which few of us can imagine today. It is fascinating to cultivate this history.
First ,Let me apologize dada for replying this late, life and hive without Gina is so cumbersome:3
As the saying goes, history is written by victors and Bangladesh or to be more accurate, the greater sub continent has a long lineage of history Dada. And cruelty is part of an empire business! i read Nil Dorpon when i was seven dada. My youngest sister then had it as her text book. I didn't understand most of it but still it gave me shivers. i didn't understand then how people could be so Pashan to one another. But as i got older and started reading history in bits and pieces from bookes like Moddhanno by Humayun Sir or azizul hakim, only then i understood that, history presents violence wrapped in grandeur. the more ruthless a ruler was, the more his accomplishments were. though of course this is not true in every instance.
exactly dada! its so hard to imagine while holding the spawns of modernization in forms of smartphones and what not in hand, yet every bit of it is as true as the sun is! makes one think doesn't it!