Bhumidhar
भूमिधरUttarakhand land records glossary · Land Types & Tenure
What is Bhumidhar?
The strongest form of land right - effectively full ownership.
After zamindari abolition, cultivators became bhumidhars. A 'bhumidhar with transferable rights' can sell, gift and mortgage the land (within the law's limits). A 'bhumidhar with non-transferable rights' holds and farms the land but cannot freely sell it - typically land granted by the government, for a set period.
Related terms
More in Land Types & Tenure
- Section 143 (Land-use change) - The process that converts farm land into 'abadi' so it can be used for housing.
- Section 154 (Purchase limits) - The rule limiting how much agricultural land a non-farmer/outsider can buy.
- Abadi - Village residential land - the settled, built-up part of a village.
- Banjar - Uncultivated / barren land in the records.
- Gaon Sabha / Gram Samaj land - Village common land vested in the village body - ponds, paths, pasture.
- Van Panchayat - Community-managed forest, unique to the Uttarakhand hills.
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