 Jotedar

Jotedars (spelled also as joadder, joatder, jwadder) were "wealthy peasants" who comprised one layer of social strata in agrarian Bengal during Company rule in India.Jotedars owned relatively extensive tracts of land; their land tenure status stoods in contrast to those of under-ryots and bargadars (sharecroppers), who were landless or land-poors.