What are Khasra maps?

Q.  What are Khasra maps?
- Published on 24 Oct 16

a. Maps denoting mining areas
b. Maps showing major mineral concentrations
c. Maps showing wastelands and barren lands in India
d. Land Parcel maps

ANSWER: Land Parcel maps
 
  • A khasra is a legal agricultural document used in India and Pakistan that specifies land and crop details.
  • Khasras traditionally detail "all the fields and their areas, measurement, who owns and what cultivators he employs, what crops, what sort of soil, what trees are on the land."
  • Systematic khasra documentation in the Indian subcontinent has existed for several centuries, far predating the British colonial period. Medieval khasra documents are a useful source for historians in reconstructing the economic history in specific areas of India and Pakistan.
  • It is often used in conjunction with a shajra (or shajra kishtwar), which is a reference map of the village that administers the land described by the khasra.

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