zamindarshiphttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zamindarship_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezamindarship, n.
Revised 2018

† zamindarshipnoun

Obsolete.
  1. 1698–1902
    The office or jurisdiction of a zamindar; = zamindari n. A.2.
    1. 1698
      The Prince having given us..the Jemmidarship of the said towns.
      Extract Consultations at Chuttanutte 31 October in W. Crooke, Yule & Burnell's Hobson-Jobson (1903) 980/1
    2. 1878
      For a good round sum he sold to the East India Company the zemindarships of Govindpore, Chutanutty, and Calcutta.
      J. Grant, History of India vol. I. ii. 9
    3. 1902
      [They] usurped the actual government of the Zemindary, and ultimately wrested from the Nabob of the Carnatic his acquiescence in the nominal tenure of the Zemindarship by Ranee Velu.
      Eng. Rep. vol. 19 844

Originally published as part of the entry for zamindar, n.

zamindar, n. was revised in June 2018.