A shajra or shajra kishtwar is a detailed village map that is used for legal (land ownership) and administrative purposes in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. A shajra maps out the village lands into land parcels and gives each parcel a unique number. The patwari

Village accountant

The village accountant is an administrative government position found in rural parts of the Indian sub-continent. The office and the officeholder are called the patwari in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bengal, North India and Pakistan...

(or village accountant) maintains a record for each one of these parcels in documents called khasra

Khasra

A khasra is a legal agricultural document used in India and Pakistan that specifies land and crop details. It is often used in conjunction with a shajra , which is a reference map of the village that administers the land described by the khasra...

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