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 a revolution for the better in the existing system of revenue administration there.

Bandobast is a Persian word, the exact translation of which in modern phraseology is the word 'settlement'. “The comprehensive term Bandobast or 'settlement' covered all the operations incidental to the assessment of land revenue of government share of the produce."

Biga or Jarib are names synonymously used for measurement as well as a fixed quantity of land. "It consists of three thousand six hundred square Guz." But the Ilahi Guz of Akbar being equivalent to a unit of measurement ranging from 29 to 34 modern inches, the Biga may be stated to be the equivalent to a modern half-an-acre and something more.

Bunjer:—It is a kind of land that has been left fallow for five years and upwards.

Buttiey or Bhaweley (Batai) are systems of realization of revenue in which the State and the peasant divide the grain collected in barns after the harvest according to the stipulated terms of an agreement.

Chaudhri:—One of the so-called local authorities—the headman of the Parganah. He corresponds in a greater degree to the headman of the village.

Checher:—A kind of land left fallow for three or four years consecutively and then resumed under cultivation.

Dahsala:—The cash rates which are cognizable under the later Mughals acquired the name of Dahsala