A

ABKARI- 

Taxes or duties on manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors and intoxicating drugs.

ABAWAB -

 Miscellaneous taxes, cesses, imposts and charges    imposed under Muslim rule by Government servants   and  zamindars on ryots in addition to regular assessment  on   land. Sometimes levied on zaniindars as the price of forbearance, on the part of Government, from detailed investigations into their profits or actual receipts from lands according to hastobud,

Abwab Suhahdari :

 Abwab imposts levied by the authority of 

 Siibahdars.

 Abwab Jafar Khan :

 Abwab imposts introduced by Murshid Kuli  Khan

Abwab Shuja Khan :

 Abwab imposts introduced by Shujauddin  Khan. 

Abwab Kasim Khan :

 Abwab imposts introduced by Mir Kasim.

AIN : 

Law, rule, or regulation.

ALTAMGHA:

 A royal grant of land in perpetuity, ‘coastituing the nearest approach to landownership in the modem sense, which appears during the Mughal period’. A heritable jagir,

AMAL-DASTUR :

 Rules and regulations coming into effect at the  s accession of a ruler.

AMIL : 

Agent, officer, collector of revenue. Superintendent of a district or division either on the part of Government, zamindar, or renter.

AMILDAR :

 An intendant and collector of revenue, uniting civil, military and financial powers.

AMILNAMA :

 A written order or commission to manage or administer property. Also, a commission to take possession of lands in the name of Govermnent.

AMIN : 

A temporary collector or supervisor appointed to the charge of a district on the removal of a zamindar, or for any other particular purpose of local investigation or arrangement. Also, a revenue assessor under a provincial Diwan.

AMLAH :

 Agents, officers, the officers of Government collectively.

APPOINTED DAY - 

9th day september 1970 (in context of B L C Act 61)

ASAL :

 Original rent, exclusive of subsequent cesses.

ASAL TUMAR JAMA ; 

Original amount according to the roll called   tumar, Asham : Retinues.

ASHAM AMLAH : 

Jagir appropriations for support of troops for guard and garrison duties.

ASHAM SEPAYE (सिपाही) :

 Military Jagirs or assignments of lands  for defraying military expenses.

AURUNG :

 Place where goods were manufactured.

AYMI:

 A general designation of allowances to Muslim religious men.

B

Badastur (बदस्तूर) 
continue as earlier, पूर्ववत

 Bakashat land
 any land other land the proprietors private land which is for the time being in the cultativing possession of a proprietor or tenure holder (bta 21. a.3)

.Baki Kaiflyat: 

Remaining profit, surplus. The balance of profit arising from the original selling price of salt.

Bandobast:

 Settlement of revenue to be paid by zamindar, farmer or renter to Government, or by tenant to zamindar.

Banian :

 Hindu cashier or man of business in the service of an European, officer or trader.

Barkandaz :

 Armed guard, escort or watchman.

Bastu :

 Land used for building residential houses.-

Batai:

 Sharing the crops between Government or zamindar and ryots where public dues were received in kind.

Baze Jama :

 Miscellaneous heads of revenue in addition to rent for use of land. Also, lands held by Brahmins.

Baze kharch :

 Various contingent disbursements, and indemnities allowed to zamindars, in lieu of all expenses, otherwise unprovided for.

Baze zamin :

 Lands taken off the rent-roll as being granted for religious or charitable purposes or for use of Government officers such as kanungos and patwaris.

Bazkhwast, Bazyaft :

 Recovery of State dues,

Bhagjote :

 A share in a holding where the produce was divided between the zamindar and the cultivator. Other terms used in the same sense were Bargajote and Bhowlee.

Bigha :

 Unit of area, about one-third of an acre in Bengal.

Brahmottar :

 Lands appropriated for Hindu religious worship.

Bandobsat(बंदोबस्त)-

भू-राजस्व निर्धारण हेतु प्रचलित सर्वे का कार्यक्रम.

baye (बैय)
-sale of land , जमीं बेच देना. 

bedakhli (बेदखली) - ejectment ;

Barani (  बरानी )
 land dependent on rain water irrigation ; 

Buraji (बुराजी)
 - marking stone of survey; सर्वेक्षण का पत्थर.

C

 

Celling area -

 the area of land fixed under sec 4 as the celling area B L C A 61'

 

Chakeran: 

Rent-free lands allotted for maintenance of public seivants in lieu of wages.

Chakla:

 An administrative area consisting of several parganas. Unit of Khaha lands placed in charge of a chakladar.

Chaudhuri :

 Headman of a pargana. Superintendent of land revenue. Zamindar.

Chauki :

 Station for tolls and customs; also, guard stations.

Chaukidar :

 Village watchman.

Chauth :

 One-fourth of the revenue claimed by the Marathas from territories which they overran but did not administer.

Chauth Maratha :

 A Subahdari abwah introduced by Alivardi Khan to make up for the decrease in revenue caused by cession of Orissa to the Marathas.

Corpa ryot :

 Under-tenant of a ryot.

Crore :

 100 lakhs, 10 millions.

Cutchery :

 A landlord's office. Any office for transaction of public business.

D

Diara land 

- any land which is subject to diliuvion or alluvion on account of any change in the course of river or which lies between two embankments constructed to control a river and includes any land which may be surved as dusra land under the bengal survey act, 1875, or which after enquiry is declared as such by collector . (B L C Act 61)

Do fsla (दो फसला)

- a type of land which can produce two crop in a year; वर्ष में दो फसल उत्पन्न करने वाली भूमि.

Dadni :

 Money paid in advance to weavers and manufacturers.

Daftar :

 Register, record, office.

Dajtar khana : A record office. Any office.

Dalal: Broker.

Dam[दाम] : A copper coin, the twenty-fifth part of a paisa.

Dar [दार ]:

 Keeper, holder. A word sometimes put after another to form a compound word indicative of office or employment: zamin-dar Mar^ deh-dar (village keeper, inferior officer of rural police).  

 

Dar Patnidar :

 One holding a sub-lease from a patnidar*

Daroga :

A superintendent or overseer of any department, e.g., police, mint, etc.

Dastak :

 A document authorising the free transit of certain goods and their exemption from inland duties.

Dastur : 

A schedule of assessment, rates being stated in money. Custom. A customary fee or commission.

Dastur-ul-amal :

 Rules of business. Political and official regulations providing guidelines for servants of Government.

Deh :

 A village. A small area recognised as an administrative unit. 

Devottar :

 Land granted for Hindu religious purposes.

Diwan :

 Place of assembly. Revenue Minister. Provincial revenue officer. A nobleman’s or zamindar's revenue officer.

Diwani :

 Office or jurisdiction of a Diwan.

Diwani adalat :

 A court for administering civil law.

Durbar : The Court, the hall of audience. A levee.

Durbar kharch : Court charges.

E

Estate 

 land included under one entry  in any of the general register  of revenue paying lands and revenue free land prepared and maintained under the law for time being in force by the collector of a district. And includes government khas mahal and revenue free lands not entered in any register(B.T act 1885).

F

Farmer 

 a person whom the collection of taxes was contracted for a fee

Fasal rabi (फसल रबी )

 crop yelled in month of ashadh , अषाढ़ी फसलें 

Farigh khatti : A writ tep release.

Farman : A royal grant or charter.

Faiwa : A Judicial decree or judgement under Muslim Law.

.Faujdar :

 Officer in charge of general administration (police and criminal matters) of a portion of a province; ordinarily not concerned with revenue administration but sometimes employed as receiver-general of the revenues.

Faujdaran : grants of land for defence of frontiers.

Faujdari abwab :

 Assessments made by Faujdars. Also, a Subahdari impost levied by Shujauddin Khan from Faujdars in frontier districts. 

Faujdari adalat :

 A court for administering criminal law,

FauJ sebundy :

 Provincial troops. Local militia employed in the police.

G

Gair maurusi ( गैर मौरूसी ) 

१.tenant at will ; 

२.non occupancy raiyat ; 

३.रैयत जिसे बेदखल किया जा सकता है; 

४.रैयत जो सीधे जमींदार को लगान न देता हो.

Ganj : A granary, a depot, chiefly of grain for sale.

Wholesale market. A commercial depot.

Ghatwal :

 A person having charge of a pass in the hills or a landing place on a river.

Gulandazi :

 An advance made by Government or zamindar to ryots to carry out urgent repairs in embankments.

Gomasta : An assistant or subordinate.

H

Had (हद)- limit , border, सीमा

Hadud (हदूद)-limits, borders, सीमाएं 

Hal(हाल)- present , वर्तमान ; हाल सर्वे 

Hakdar(हकदार)-owner of land ; मालिक जमीन 

Hamshira (हमशीरा)-sister from same mother ; सहोदर बहनें.

         Hast-o-bud (हस्त-ओ-बूद)-

is a compound term of Persian origin used extensively in Mughal and British colonial land revenue administration.

  Holding-

a parcel or parcel of land by raiyat and forming the subject of separate Tenancy

Harja(हर्जा)-

I

Ihtimam :

 Zamindar's jurisdiction over certain variable territorial units. An estate.

Ihtimamdar :

 A person holding a trust or charge, generally a zamindary trust or jurisdiction.

IJara :

 A farm or temporary lease, particularly of the revenues of a district to a person other than the proprietor.

IJaradar : A farmer of the revenues of a district.

Ijardaree - revenue farmer's fee

 Inam :

 Present, gift, reward. A grant of land free of rent, or assignment of the Government’s share of the produce or revenue of land, for the support of Muslim religious establishments and priests, for charitable purposes, or for the maintenance of public servants.

Istemrardar : Holder of a grant in perpetuity.

Istemerary patta : A lease in perpetuity.

Izafa :

 Any increase in the amount of revenue. Increase of revenue effected by hastobud investigations under prince Shuja, being a new valuation, of the old revenue as settled by the asal tumar jama of Todar Mal.

J

Jinswar (जिंसवार )- फ़सलवार जिंसों का योग

jot (जोत ) - holding

Jagir :

 An assignment of the Government share of the revenue of a tract of land, either to an individual for his own support ( Jagir-i-tan) or to a public servant for the support of any public establishment, particularly of a military nature (Jagird-i-sar),

Jagirdar : Holder of a Jagir,

Jalkar : Right of fishing and use of water.

Jama :

 Total amount of revenue payable by a zamindar to the Government, or by a ryot (o the zamindar.

Jamabandy :

 A settlement of the total of an assessment, or a written' statement of the same.

Jama kamil tumari : Complete revenue roll.

Jama kharch : Statement of receipts and disbursements.

Jama wasil baki :

 An account in three columns, staling the total of the revenues expected according to tlic settlement, the amount received, and the balances outstanding.

Jarib : A land measure; the measuring instrument.

Jote : A holding.

NiJ-Jote :

 Lands cultivated by the proprietors or revenue-payers by themselves and for their own benefit. Also land set apart for the private* maintenance of the zamindar.

K

Kaimi raiyat (कायमी रैयत ) - settled raiyat

Kargujari (कारगुजारी)-progress report; प्रगति प्रतिवेदन 

Kla (कला)
- big, large,बड़ा (मौजा के नाम में जोड़ा जानेवाला प्रत्यय)

Khamar / Khamat

land which is proved to have been cultivated by the proprietor himself with his own stock or by his own servants or by haired labours for twelve countionus year immediately before the passing of the act of 1885 (bta 120.a) 

Khaka(खाका)-draft ,प्रारूप 
Khanapuri(खानापुरी)- खतियान के स्तंभों को भरना, सर्वे का प्रारम्भिक कार्य 

Khesra (खेसरा) -register of field  ; plot

Khewat (खेवट )
 - description of proprietorship ,मलकियत का 
विवरण

 

khiatian(खतियान) - abstract of particulars of holding .

Kishtwar(किश्तवार)-कृषी के अनुसार भू-मापन एवं भू-खंडकरन 

Khurd (खुर्द)-small, छोटा (मौजा के नाम में जोड़ा जानेवाला प्रत्यय)

Khush haishiyat(खुश-हैसियत) -good condition; अच्छे हालात 

Kabuiiyat :

 An agreement; particularly that entered into by ziamindars and farmers with the Government for the management and renting of the land revenues. Counterpart of ^tta,

Kaifiyat :

 Profit resulting from the revenue investigations of Mir Kasim, being an item of the Subahdari abwab. Also, increase of revenue from hastobud enquiries into the resources of the Khalsa lands.

Kaifiyat hastobud :

 An item of the Subahdari abwab in the time of Alivardi Khan, consisting of resumption of lands, and discovered resources in Khalsa lands brought to account in frontier districts. 

Kaifiyat sair :

 Profit or increase of revenue derived from bringing to public account fraudulent or irregular emoluments or abuses in sair duties.

Kanungo :

 A Government officer whose duly was to keep a register of all circumstances relating to the land revenue, and. when called upon, to declare the customs of each district, the nature ol the tenures, the quantity of land, the nature of the produce, the amount of the rent paid, etc.

Karar : Agreement, engagement, contract.

Karar jama deh sahi : Decennial Settlement.

Karkun : Clerk, wiitcr.

Karori:

 Collector of revenue to the extent of a kanu (crorc) ol dams', sometimes invested with the general superintendence of lands in his pargana,

Katkinadar :

 An under-tenant, under-farmer or under-renter.

Kabulnama :

 An agreement in writing. A proclamation to ryots, announcing the rules and principles by which the demands of the Government on the lands in their occupation were to be regulated.

Khalari : Salt works,

Khalsa :

 Exchequer. Lands, the revenues of which were paid into the exchequer, as contradistinguished from jagir or other description of lands, the Government share of whose produce had been assigned to individuals.

Khalsa sharifa : Royal treasury or exchequer.

Khamar : Land, the revenue of which was collected by the zamindar in kind, being cultivated on a share-produce basis.

KharaJ

 : Revenue demand.

Kkarij-i-Jama :

 What is excluded from jama. Rents from ryots enjoyed by individuals under assignments or grants from Government, such as the nankar of karoris and zamindars.

Khas :

 Lands from which revenue was collected immediately by the Government without the agency of zamindars. Under the Company's Government that term was generally applied when there was an immediate division of the actual produce between the Government and the ryots, and also where the revenues of smaller portions than zamindarles were let to farm.

Khasnovisi : An article of Subahdari abwab introduced by Murshid Kuli Khan, being originally a fee (russum) exacted from zamindars at the renewal of their annual leases by mutasaddis and other clerks of the Khalsa, but afterwards extended to other objects.

Khazanchi : A treasurer.

Kheda : 

A trap for catching elephants. Lands assigned for meeting expenses of catching elephants.

Khilat : 

A robe of honour with which princes conferred dignity. An item of abwab,

Khudkasht :

 Ryots who cultivated lands in the village where they resided, and by hereditary right. Also, lands so cultivated.

Kismat : A division of country, sometimes forming part of a sarkar, but more generally^ part of a pargana.

Kismat-i-Ghalla : Division of grain. Assessment by sharing.

Kist : Instalment of rent.

 

L

Land- 

which is used or capable of being used for agricultur or horticulture and includes land is an orchard kharhur  or pasturage or forest land or even land perennially submerge under water  or homestead of a land holder ; B  L C A 61

Landlord -

 a person immediately under whom a tenant holds and include the government

Lakh : One hundred thousand.

Lakhiraj :

 Rent-free lands. Lands, Government dues from which were assigned to any person for his own benefit, or were appropriated to any public purpose.

M

Majkoor ( मजकूर ) -  continus चालू

 Malguzari (मालगुजारी) - rent ;

Maurusi (मौरूसी )

 tenant who pay rent and can not dispossessed .बेदखल न होनेवाला एवम् लगान देने वाला काश्तकार .(उ. गैर-मौरूसी )

Med(मेंड़)-

 boundary of a plot (खेत की सीमा)

Min (मिन)- part, भाग

Min-Janib  (मिन-जानिब)- towards, की ओर.

Mukabla(मुकाबला)-तुलना , सर्वे का एक चरण 

Mukhtarnama(मुख्तारनामा)-power of attorney

  Mutfarrik kayde( मोतफरिक कायदे ) - miscellaneous provisions

Madad-i-ma'ash :

 Allotment of land for subsistence to Muslim religious and learned men.

Mahal: A revenue-division.

Mahoteran : Lands given for the maintenance of respectable persons other than Brahmins.

Mahsul : Produce or amount of sair,

Majumdar :

 One who was in charge of the whole collection. A temporary revenue accountant of a district or province.

Makuddim :

 Head ryot, or principal man in a village, who superintended its affairs and collected the rents.

Mal : Revenue, rent, particularly that arising from lands in contradistinction to sair. Sometimes used in wider sense of revenue administration.

Mulangi :

 A peison engaged in the manufacture of salt.

Malguzar :

 One who pays rent or revenue, whether as tenant, zamindar, or farmer.

Malguzari : Assessed lands. Also, the rent of such lands.

Malguzari tehsil kul :

 Net revenues levied from zamindars and farmers, and on officers of Government.

Malikana : 

What related or belonged to a person as master or headman, e.g., a share of each ryots produce received by the makuddim as a customary fee, nankar etc. Allowance made to zamindars when dispossessed from their estates.

Malzamin :

 Bondsman for the discharge of a debt or payment of rent.

 Malzamini :

 Written security for due payment of a debt or revenue.

Mandal :

 A circle, a division of the country. Head man of a village.

Mangan : One of the cesses or abwabs.

Mansab : 

Office, a military rank under the Mughal Government.

Mansabdar : Holder of a mansab.

Mansabdaran :

 Lands assigned to mansabdars on the condition of personal service.

Mapa-dan : Tax levied on goods exported and imported.

Mathot :

 An occasional impost or tax, sometimes included in the abwab, imposed upon ryots for some special purpose, or under some incidental pretext, either by the Government or its officials, or zamindars.

Maund : Unit of weight containing 40 seers[सेर].

Mauza : A village.

Meadi : (Ryot) holding land for a term.

Mirasi : Hereditary landed property.

Mitmdar : Holder of hereditary lands.

Mofussil : The country, as opposed to town.

Mofussil account:

 Accounts made up m the villages and parganas or larger divisions of the country, by patwaris, kanungos, or serishtadars.

Mohrer, mohuri : A writer, clerk in an office.

Moshiaira[मोसहारा] :

 Monthly allowance granted by the Government to a zamindar when suspended from the management of his estate.

Muchleka : A solemn engagement or declaration in writing.

Mukarari : A proprietor's tcnent held at a fixed or permanent rate of revenue.

Munshi : Letter-writer, secretary. Instructors of Europeans in the Persian language.

Mushrut : Grants of lands which were, either wholly or in part, to be appropriated to particular uses.

Muskurat : Dasturs, or customary deductions, allowed to zamindars from their collections at the close of their settlements.

Muskuri :

 Small or single parganas, zamindaries and petty mahals or talukdaries, paying revenue to the Governmem through a superior zamindar.

Musnud [मसनद]: A throne or chair for the ruler.

Mutalaba : Amount of revenue demand.

Mutasaddi : Writer, accountant clerk in a public office.

N

 

Naib : A deputy.

Najai : 

A tax on the present cultivators to make up the deficiencies in revenue caused by the desertion or death of neighboring ryots in the same village.

Nankar:

 Allowance for subsistence. An assignment of land, or the Government dues for a particular portion of the land, calculated to yield 5 per cent on the net receipts into the treasury, held by a zamindar. Also, offiiclal lands of the kanungos and other revenue servants.[subsistence allowance (17th, 18th and 19th century)                         to  be paid to the zamindars and the kanungoes.]

Nasaq :

 Group-assessment. The term might cover farming as well.

Nazar : A present offered to a superior.

Nazarana : A present given particularly as an acknowledgement for a grant of lands, public office and the like.

Nazir : A supervisor or inspector.

Nazranas ( नजराना ) - salami , presents.

Neabut:

 Lieutenancy The office, administration and jurisdiction of ai Nawab.

Nij / Nijjot / Nijjo  

land which is proved to have been cultivated by the proprietor himself with his own stock or by his own servants or by haired labors for twelve countionus year immediately before the passing of the act of 1885 (bta 120.a)

Nimaki : Salt lands.

Nirik :

 Standard rate by which lands were assessed, formed on the produce and measurement of them at so much per bigha.

Nisf ( निस्फ़ )

 half portion of produce पैदावार का आधा भाग

Nowarah :

 Boat establishment, Jagir appropriation for the naval establishment.

 

 

O

occupancy raiyat 

raiyat having a right of occupancy in the land held by them

P

Paik : A foot messenger. An armed attendant.

Paikasht :

 Ryots who cultivated lands in a village to which they did not belong and held their lands upon an indefinite tenure, their leases being generally granted with a limitation in point of time.

Pargana :

 A fiscal district consisting of several villages, being a sub-division of a chakla,

Parwana :

 A warrant or order from a person in authority to a dependent or subordinate.

Patnidar : 

A holder of a patni or taluk, paying a fixed rent in perpetuity.

Patta :

 Deed of lease given to a tenant specifying the conditions on which the lands were to be held and the rent paid.

Patwari : Village accountant.

Payakari :

 A sub-tenant who cultivated the land of another for one or more years by agreement, for which he was entitled to a certain proportion of the produce.

Peon : 

A foot man. An inferior servant employed in revenue, police, or judicial duties.

Permanent settlement

 permanent settlement of Bengal Bihar and Orissa made in the year 1793

Permanent tenure

 tenure which is inheritable and which is not held for a limited time

Peshkar: chief assistant,

Peshkash :

 A present, particularly to the Government, in consideration of an appointment or as an acknowledgement of any tenure. Tribute, fine, quit-rent, advance on stipulated revenue.

Pirottar :

 Land held free of rent by pirs (Muslim saints); assignments of the Government dues from particular lands eijoyed by such persons.

Pisar-wald(पीसर -वल्द) - son;पुत्र

Pisar-dokhtar(पीसर दोख्तर) - daughter;पुत्री

Proprietor 

a person owning wether in trust or for his own benefit and state or part of an estate

Pulbandy : Repairing embankments.

Puniya : Day when the collection of rent and revenue for the new year began.

Pushtabandy : Repairing embankments.

 

Q

R

Radif(रदीफ़)-व्यवस्थित करना, सर्वे का एक चरण .

Rahadari :

 Duties collected at different stations in the interior of the country from passengers, and on account of grain and other necessaries of life,, by zamindars and Government officers, being a branch of sair,

Raiyat 

preliminary a person who has acquired a right to hold land for the purpose of cultivating it by himself , or by member of his family or by haired servants or with the aid of partners , and includes also the successor in interest of person who have acquire such a right (bta)

Ray-i-Rayan : 

Principal officer of the Khalsa, or chief treasurer of the exchequer.

Rent 

whatever is lawful payable or deliverable in money or kind by who is landlord on account of the use or occupation of the land held by the tenant (bta)

Revenue officer 

whom state government may appoint to discharge any of the function of a officer under the provisions of act

Registered 

start learning app for the time being in Force for the registration of document

Rose Piyada - daily allowance to the peon

Russud : Augmentation of revenue.

Russum :

 Shares of crops and ready money payments received by public officers as perquisites attached to their situations.

Ryot : The peasantry as a body. A cultivator, a tenant.

Ryoti : Lands for which ryots paid rents in money.

Ryotwari :

 A settlement of the revenue made by the Government with actual cultivators without any intermediary.

S

Safaie(सफाई)-स्वच्छ प्रति तैयार करना. सर्वे का एक चरण.

Sabik(साबिक.पु० )
-earlier, old,पुराने समय का, पहले का ;साबिक सर्वे  

Sakunat (सकूनत) 
- place of living , address,निवास स्थान,पता  

Sadar :

The headquarters as opposed to the interior or mofussil.

Sair :

 Variable impost, distinct from land rent or revenue, consisting of ol customs, tolls, licences, duties on merchandise and other articles of personal moveable property; also, taxes on houses, shops, bazars, etc.

Salami :

 A gift made by way of compliment or in return for a favour.

Sanad :

 A patent, charter or written authority for holding either land or office.

Sarkar : A revenue district.

Sazawal :

 Officer employed to manage the affairs and collect the revenues of estates of recusant proprietors.

Sebundy : 

An irregular military force employed at harvest time or in collecting revenue.

Ser : A unit of weight, generally one-fortieth of a maund

Serishta : A public record, or office.

Serishtadar : Keeper of records.

Shikdar : A subordinate revenue officer

Shroff: A banker or money-changer.

Sir ( सिर /सर )

 land which is proved to have been cultivated by the proprietor himself with his own stock or by his own servants or by haired labours for twelve countionus year immediately before the passing of the act of 1885 (bta 120.a) 

Sud : Interest.

Succession 

includes both interstate and testamentary succession

Suyurghal : Jagir assignment, usually for life, on certain lands for the whole or part of their assessed rcvenue,

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Tafriq : 

Distribution of the demand determined by Government assesmcnt, among the individuals composing a group.

Tahsil: Collection of revenue.

Tahsildar :

 Collector of revenue under a zamindar or under the Government.

Takiim : 

Constituent parts of the assessment called tumar jama, and comprehending not only the quota of the greater territorial division, hut of the village and of the individual ryots.

Taksis : A detailed roll or statement of the net annual settelment concluded with zamindars, talukdars and renters. Also signified the touar Jamabandy of Todar Mal, as corrected by Murshid Kuli Khan in 1722.

Taluk : A district the revenues of which were under the management of a talukdar and were generally accounted for to the zamindar within whose jurisdiction it happened to he included, but sometimes paid immediately to the Government.

Talukdar: A person holding a taluk,

Tankha : An assignment on the revenue for personal support, or for other purposes.

Tappa : A fiscal division, forming part of a pargana.

Taqavi: Assisting tenants with an advance of money for cultivation.

Taraf : Division of 2l pargana,

Tarafdar : One who has charge of a taraf,

 Tarmim (तरमीम)
 to change ; बदल देना (खतियान में तरमीम भी होता है ), खतियान में शुद्धिकरण आदेश का अनुपालन.

Tartib(तरतीब)-अभिलेखों की व्यवस्था रैयत के नाम के अनुसार वर्णानुक्रम में व्यवस्थित करना. सर्वे का एक चरण.

Thana : A military post or station. A petty police jurisdiction, subordinateto a daroga.

Takabi (तकाबी) 
agriculture loan ; कृषि ऋण


Teen Chhram( तीन चहराम )

 three fourth portion of produce पैदावार का दोतिहाई भाग 

Tenancy 
possession of land or property as a tenant


Tenant

 a person who hold land under another person and is or but for special contract would be liable to pay rent for the land to that person (bta)

Tenure 

1.interest of tenure a holder or an under tenure holder (bta)
2.the condition under which land or building are held or occupied.

tenure holder 

preliminary a person who acquired from a proprietor or from another tenure holder . a right to hold the land for the purpose of collecting rents or bringing it under cultivation by establishing tenant on it.and includes also the successor in interest of person who have acquire such right.(bta)

Terij(तेरिज)-अधिकार अभिलेख का संक्षिप्त सार.

Towfir jagirdarm :

 An increase of revenue from jagirs appropriated to the support of troops, military officers or other individuals [an item of Subahdari abwab]

Towji : 

A statement or circumstantial account submitted every month.

Tumar Jama : 

The sum total of an assessment enrolled or recorded in a public register. Particularly applied to Todar Mal's assessment. Also used to designate the standard assessments of Shuja (1658) and Murshid Kuli Khan (1722).

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Village 

the area defined surveyed and recorded as a distinct and separate

Vakil:

 One vested with authority to act for another. Agent sent on a special commission, or residing at Court. Pleader in Company’s law courts.

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Wakf: An endowment for religious or charitable purpose.

Walid (वालिद) - father ; पिता

 

Walida (वालिदा )- mother ; माता 

Waldiyat (वल्दियत )- father's name ; पिता का नाम 

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