pakistan geographical review 1954 - University of the Punjab

and not of Mangal Sain. All the area covered in this land-use survey belongs
to the Warah village except for the built up area of Kat Mangal Sain which is
bout 30 acres only. The method of investigation was partially direct study of
conditions on the spot and partially based on the study of official sources of
information. This information is contained in four books named M isle-H aqiyat,
Jama Bandi, Kh.aera Gardawri and Lal-Kitab and a village map giving the
demarcation of fields and built up areas. Misle-Haqiyat and Jama-Bandi deal
with the ownership of land, the first giving the details of ownership before 1940,
the year of last settlement and the latter giving the changes which have taken
place since then. For the purpose of land use, these are not of much avaiJ as
these only convey an idea about the sub-divisions and fragmentation of
holdings. Khasra-Gardawri gives detail of farms. Lal-Kitab is the most
informative of these all. It contains information about the usage to which land
is put taking the village as a whole. It is split into two parts. The first part
gives the classifications of land in different years under such headings as total
area, area under forests, land otber than forests divided under the subheads of
(a) impossible (b) cultivable, and cultivated further subdivided
into kinds of land, fallow, double cropped area etc. The second part gives
details about the acreage sown to the various commodities in Khar if and Rabi in
different kinds of land e.g. Chahi, Hail, Barani, Barani Awwal, Miara and Rakkar.
Chahi means well-irrigated. HaiJ is the land adjoining the village and enriched
by the village waste. Barani Awwal is flat low land receiving the rain water of
the surrounding area. Maira is the upland receiving direct rainwater only and
Rakkar is the stony and undulating land consisting of coarse material.
The classification of land in Warah village is as follows :-
Out of the total of 1,238 acres, 750 acres, as high a percentage as 61, is
totally denied to agriculture and comes under the category of impossible for
cultivation. About 488 acres 39% is under plough. Out of the cultivated land,
Hail covers 6 acres, Chahi 18, Barani Awwal 223, Maira 232, and Rakkar 9,
the respective percentages being 8.7%. Lx, 45,48-8 and 1.9. It is clear that
Hail, the best land, is very small. Chahi being another prized kind of land is
again very limited. The number of wells in the village is only three, one
supplying the drinking water for the village folk, and the two irrigating the
fields. The restriction on the number of welJs is not imposed by the depth
of the water table which is only 20 ft. here but by the fact that wells go out
of usage after some time owing to the increased brackishness of water. Maira
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