What is "zaildar"

n. (context India English) A native officer in charge of a zail.

Zaildar (ज़ैल) was a feudal title, and a grand jagirdar of the area, in charge of a Zail in the colonial rural administration of Punjab in British India. Each Zail was an administrative unit, extending between twenty and forty villages.he had the power to control all of the area that was under the government.Today the chairman of a union council could be said as zaildar some examples are Zaildar chaudary sultan ali