Musavi
Land records
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The original cloth or paper survey sheet a village map was drawn on.
The musavi is the base survey sheet produced at settlement, from which shajras and tatimas are copied. Older musavis are cloth-mounted and are the ultimate reference when a boundary is disputed and the copies disagree.
Related words
Shajra
The village map showing every plot and its khasra number.
Tatima
The sketch map of a plot held in the revenue record, drawn after a partition.