Report of the land revenue settlement of the Dera Ismail Khan District of the Punjab, 1872-79

· 1879 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

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2These are villages foanded in waste lands on the border of

3the Mian Khel territory with the permission of the elan, by

4the lessees or their ancestors. Many of the Mian Khel vil-

5lages appear to have been founded in this way, but the con-

6nection of the founders with them has remained unbroken

7in these cases only. Originally the founders appear to have

8held from the olan on a tenure similar to that of the mazduri

9khors of the Chandw&n Circle. The reasons for awarding

10these men a special status are in every case substantial, and

11the awards appear to have been accepted by the clan.

12In these eight villages the settlement has been made

13with the ex-lessee sub-proprietors, who . will collect the

14mahsul, or Government share of produce, as before, from the

15cultivators. Most of the land in these villages is held by

16lathband occupancy tenants ( generally Jdts), who pay only

17the two-fifths mahsul and malikana, and take muajora or

18rent from sub-tenants for land they do not; cultivate them-

19selves. The ex-lessees are themselves lathbands in their

20villages, but not to any large extent.

21The arrangement by which the lessees in case of loss took

22half the malikana has been modified ; of the 8-20th paid by the

23cultivators, 5-20th instead of 4t-20th, as heretofore, has been

24declared mahsul or the right of the subordinate proprietors,

25and the clan proprietors will take the remaining 3-20th, and

26will no longer be liable to any deductions on account of losses.

27In all the other villages of the Draban Mian Khels the

28settlement has been made with the proprietors, as has been

29done also in the Musazdi country, except in two villages,

30where an arrangement similar to that in the eight villages

31above noted has been made.

3217. The next circle is the territory of the Babdrs of

33*.t. »v^ Chandwdn. The whole of it has been

34Tenures of the Baoftra. 3» > 3 :% iv-i'iv j. x* «

35divided among the different section of

36the clan ; the process has been gradual, as new land has

37•been brought into cultivation, or sometimes as a prelimin*

38ary to so doing the clan has stepped in and divided the

39block among its sections. Each section therefore holds plot

40scattered over the whole territory. These divisions were

41originally made to enable each section to collect its

42proprietary share of produce separately, and not, as a rule,

43with any view to separate cultivation ; but now-a-days the

44proprietors, as far as possiblci have their own tenants for

45their own holdings.