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The Polaj land classification under Akbar's revenue system (Aina-i-Dahsala) signified land that was:

Cultivated continuously every year and never left fallow ✓

Left fallow for 1 to 2 years to recover fertility

Uncultivated for 3 to 4 years

Barren land uncultivated for 5 or more years

Polaj was the highest, most-favored land classification — continuously cultivated every year without a fallow break — assessed at the standard full revenue rate, unlike Parauti, Chachar, or Banjar, which received progressively lower assessments reflecting their lower/interrupted productivity.

Land left fallow for 1 to 2 years to regain its natural soil fertility was designated as:

Parauti ✓

Chachar

Banjar

Polaj

Parauti land was deliberately rested for one to two years to recover fertility before being cultivated again — the second tier in Akbar's four-tier land classification system (Polaj, Parauti, Chachar, Banjar), which assessed revenue according to how continuously a plot could be farmed.

Land uncultivated for 3 to 4 years was classified under Akbar's revenue system as:

Chachar ✓

Banjar

Parauti

Polaj

Chachar land, left fallow for three to four years, sat between Parauti (1-2 years fallow) and Banjar (5+ years uncultivated) in Akbar's four-tier classification — each tier carrying a correspondingly different, lower revenue assessment.

What was the Nasaq system of land assessment in the Mughal state?

Group assessment method based on previous calculations or rough estimates of village revenue ✓

Direct individual field-by-field measurement every season

Revenue auctioning to lowest bidder

Tax payment exclusively in grain yield

Nasaq was a simplified assessment method using historical/customary figures rather than fresh individual measurement each season — administratively lighter than Zabti (measurement-based) assessment, often used where detailed annual surveys weren't practical.

Under the Delhi Sultanate, the revenue officer responsible for maintaining local land records at the village level was the:

Patwari ✓

Muqaddam

Chaudhary

Khut

The Patwari maintained village-level land and revenue records — a hereditary local office that, notably, persisted in various forms well beyond the Sultanate and Mughal periods into the colonial and even modern Indian revenue bureaucracy.

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