What is Jamabandi in Bihar?
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The live register of who is recorded as paying revenue on a holding now. Where the Khatiyan says who held the land at settlement, the Jamabandi says who holds it today — and the two disagreeing is the single most common root of a Bihar land dispute.
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Dakhil-Kharijदाखिल-खारिजThe application to enter a transfer — sale, inheritance or partition — against the Jamabandi. Until it completes, the register still names the previous raiyat w…RaiyatरैयतThe person recorded as holding the land and paying revenue on it. Bihar's records are built around the raiyat rather than the plot, which is why a holding scatt…Mauzaमौज़ाThe revenue village — the unit a cadastral survey was carried out over and the unit Bhu-Naksha serves maps for. A mauza and a modern panchayat village need not…BatwaraबटवाराThe division of a joint family holding between its members. Bihar produces more partitioned holdings than almost anywhere, which is why a single family's land s…