Correct Answer - Option 2 : Pahi Kashats
The correct answer is Pahi Kashats.
- The cultivators who had no cultivable land in their own villages were allowed to take up land in other villages.
- They were known as Pahi Kashats.
- The villagers were always opposed to such tenants as they preferred to have the advantage of grazing their cattle on the land which otherwise might remain fallow.
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Biswadars:
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Biswadars also called as Bapidars.
- The holders of these were given occupancy rights which were hereditary.
- They enjoyed undisturbed possession of their holdings so long as they continued to pay the fixed rent.
- The peasant under these tenures enjoyed certain other rights.
- The land revenue was charged on concessional, rates and the land revenue once fixed could not be enhanced.
- All the trees and other natural products could be used by them without restriction or additional payment.
- They could sell or mortgagee their holdings.
- The peasants under the Biswadars or Bapidars tenure were very few but certainly, they privileged in comparison to others.
- The demand for such type of tenure was prominent during the course of peasant movements in all parts of Rajasthan.
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Muamla:
- The Muamla means primarily an arrangement or settlement.
- This category of Jagir tenures claimed that these were conquered by the ancestors of the owners.
- These were not granted by the States.
- The Jagirdars under this category accepted the overlordship of the State concerned on the condition of tribute or military service.
