PROPIETOR

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ASSAM LAND & REVENUE REGULATION, 1886

SECTION - 2

PROPRIETOR

'Proprietor' is defined under Section 3.(f) of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886.
Proprietor means the owner of any Estate permanently settled or entered on the Deputy Commissioner's register of revenue free Estates. All Zamindars of Permanently settled estates, owners of Lakiraj Estates as well as owners of fee simple estates entered in a seperate register of revenue free estates maintained in the Deputy Commissioners office are 'Proprietors'.
So long as he pays the Government revenue and such cesses as may be legally assessed on his land and conforms to the provisions of the Tenancy Laws, he is absolute owner of his land and can dispose it off as he pleases.

Proprietor, by definition, is the owner of
(i) a revenue - free estate, or
(ii) a Permanently Settled Estate.

(i) Proprietor of Revenue - Free Estate :
What classes of lands are treated as revenue - free estates? We have already seen that Debottor Lakhiraj estates which were found to be bonafide and valid grants of the Assam Kings were recognised by the British Government as revenue - free. A special class of revenue- free estates of Cachar known as Baksha estates were also recognized by the British Government, these being grants from the Kachari Kings to their priests or servants. They were to remain revenue- free so long as they continued to be held by the family of the original holder, but liable to assessment whenever transferred otherwise than by inheritance.
During the reign of the British Government in the early days of rule the Government created a new class of revenue free estate for the encouragement of growth and expansion of tea Industry in Assam.

(2) Proprietors of permanently settled estates :
The owners of permanently settled estate are also classed as "Proprietors". Permanently settled estates were found only in the old districts of Goalpara and Cachar and foothills of the Garohills, and in no other districts of Assam.

Goalpara district may be divided into 2 distinct regions:

(1) Eastern Duars comprising Bijni, Chirang, Ripu and Guma Duars : they lie at the foot of the Bhutan Hills between the Sankosh and the Manas rivers. These Duars were not included in any permanently settled estates.

(2) Permanently settled estates were covered by the following big Zamindaries
(a) Bijni, (b) Mechpara, (c) Parbatjoar, (d) Chapor, (e)  Gauripur, (f) Karaibari.

Once upon a time the areas covered by them were the famous Narayana. territories of a branch of the Koch King who descended from the famous Narayana.The Koch kingdom, in course of time, fell into pieces, particularly under the repeated Mughal attacks and many lesser Chieftains claimed independent territories out of it.



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