How to get Tatima and Shajra map sheets in Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh's land records follow the system Punjab uses, and the map is part of it. Each field is a Khasra number. The Shajra is the village map that draws them, derived from the Musavi, the settlement map. When a Khasra is split, the split is drawn on a Tatima. The Jamabandi lists who holds each Khasra; the maps show where it is and what shape it has now.

What you are actually asking for

Shajra

The field map of the revenue village, with every Khasra number and its boundaries. A village runs across several sheets.

Tatima

The sketch drawn when a Khasra is divided, showing its new parts and their numbers. Hill land splits often, so most holdings have at least one.

Musavi

The scaled settlement map the Shajra derives from. It is what the revenue office works from when a measurement is in doubt.

Start with the Jamabandi

Pull the Jamabandi first. It gives the district, tehsil and village as the department spells them, and the exact Khasra numbers in your Khewat, including the numbers of any parts created by a split. A map request on the number from before a Tatima comes back with the old, whole field, not the part you hold.

Getting the sheets

1. Open HimBhoomi and find your district, tehsil and village. The state's land records are being digitised there, and many villages' records can be looked up.
2. View or download the map for each Khasra number in your holding. Where the village runs to several sheets, take every sheet your numbers fall on, not just the first.
3. For any Khasra that has been split, get the Tatima. Where it is not online, ask the Patwari of your Patwar circle, who keeps the village's Shajra and Tatimas.
4. Check each sheet: the village name, the Khasra numbers, and that the edges are legible, because the edges are what you will line up.

When the boundary on the ground is the question

If a neighbour disputes where a boundary runs, that is a demarcation request to the tehsil, not a map request. The revenue staff mark the Khasra's limits on the ground from the settlement map. On steep terraced land the drawing and the ground can look very different, so having the whole holding already joined into one drawing helps that visit.

Joining the sheets

A holding spread over several Khasra numbers, a field split by Tatimas, a field near a sheet edge, or land on a village boundary all end the same way: several sheets, each showing a fragment. Line them up along the boundaries they share so the lines crossing each join continue, and you have one continuous map of the holding, ready to print or attach to an Intkal, a loan file or a court annexure.