Khasra

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A Khasra Girdawari (Hindustani: ख़सरा or خسره گرداوری) is a legal Revenue Department document used in India and Pakistan that specifies land and crop details.{{Citation | title=The Land Systems of British India: Being a Manual of the Land-tenures and of the Systems of Land-revenue Administration Prevalent in the Several Provinces | author=Baden Henry Baden-Powell | year=1892 | publisher=Clarendon Press, 1892 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vVKAAAAYAAJ | quote=...The shajra (usually with patwari on cloth or lattha ; shajra nasab is a family tree/lineage of land owner who owns that particular land in shajra; demarked by Kanoongo ) village map ... The khasra girdawari, or index register to the map. It is a list showing, by numbers, 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 ... From this khasra girdawari a 'khatauni', or abstract of fields held by each person, is made out ...}} It is often used in conjunction with a shajra (or shajra kishtwar), which is a family tree of owner ;used for reference map of the village that administers the land described by the khasra girdawari.{{Citation | title=The Central Administration of the East India Company 1773-1834 | author=Bankey Bihari Misra | year=1959 | publisher=Manchester University Press, 1959 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FqHnAAAAIAAJ | quote=... The preparation of a detailed field map called Shajra in which the fields were numbered. The patwari was then to register all the field numbers in a corresponding field book called khasra girdawari which also contained the name of the proprietor ...}} 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.". In Indian Land record system, "Khatauni" is an account book, "Khasra girdawari" is a survey book and "Sajra" is the village map. At village level, patwari is appointed to update and maintain these land records.