Sirdar
सीरदारUttarakhand land records glossary · Land Types & Tenure
What is Sirdar?
A historical tenure below bhumidhar - could farm but not sell; mostly upgraded now.
Sirdars held land from the state with hereditary cultivation rights but no right to transfer. Over the decades most sirdari holdings were upgraded to bhumidhari by paying a multiple of land revenue. You will still meet the term in old khataunis and case law.
Related terms
More in Land Types & Tenure
- ZA & LR Act - The 1950 law that abolished landlords and created today's tenure system.
- 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.
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