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Biswa — meaning
A term used in Indian land records and land transactions, explained in English and Hindi, with the lessons and judgments where it matters.
बिस्वा
Definition
One-twentieth of a bigha, and itself divided into twenty biswansi, so that a bigha contains four hundred biswansi. Older Rajasthan records and everyday village speech state holdings in the format bigha–biswa–biswansi — a holding written as 2-11-08 means two bigha, eleven biswa and eight biswansi. Because the bigha itself varies between the pucca and kaccha measure and between districts, a biswa figure is only meaningful once you know which bigha it is a twentieth of.
One-twentieth of a bigha.