J. DAFTAR -i- QANUNGOI 

            The exact date of the establishment of Daftar-i-Qanungoi has not been conformed but its records available from 1221 H.  /1806 A.D. There had been two officers of Qanungoi - one for the Hyderabad Suba and other for the Bidar Suba. The functions of this daftar were to solve the boundary disputes of villages and agricultural lands. Wherever disputes arose a Qanungo (high official ) handled all the disputes matters during the early Afaf jahi period.

          The Daftar-i-Qanungoi records pertaining to the files regarding the decisions made in referred cases of lands and boundary disputes, the files consist of sanads, ahkams, qabalajats, bainamjat, chakbandi, razinamajat. This Daftar  records are in Persian. This daftar records were transferred toArchives in 1940.

The detailed Particulars of the records of Daftar-i-Qanungoi are shown below :

Sl.No	Nature of the Document	Periodicity	No. of   Documents
1.	Ahkams (Orders) Paper	1807-1929A.D	9270
2	Bainamajats (Sale deeds)	,,	,,
3.	Chakbandis (Deeds)	,,	,,
4.	Qabalajats (Sale deeds)	,,	,,
5.	Razinamajats (Aggrement deed acknowledgment)	,,	,,
6.	Sanads (Certificates of land grants)	,,	,,

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