Khatauni
The account of all land held by one owner in a village.
Where a khasra describes a plot, a khatauni gathers every plot held by the same owner in that village into one account. Checking ownership normally means reading both: the khatauni to see what a person holds, and the khasra to see the detail of a particular plot.
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This term appears in the census tables reproduced across state, district, tehsil and village pages. How we source and handle those figures is set out on the about the data page.
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