Chak (village)

Block of contiguous land irrigated by the specific Rajwaha were given a unique chak number each.

The migrant farmers were brought in to settle into those newly irrigated areas around the core of new villages [which started out as dhanis].

[2] Chaks are found mainly in the bagar tract on the tri-junction of Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab region.

Chak is also a village in Danta Ramgarh Tehsil of the Sikar district in Rajasthan, mainly populated by Pandits and Purohits.

Chak Bandi in Urdu (چک بندی), in Hindi (चकबंदी) or Killa Bandi in Urdu (قلعہ بندی), in Hindi (किल्लाबंदी), in terms of land and revenue, is the process of land consolidation,[4] and Revenue Settlement.

[9] Permanent Settlement is the process of confirmation of landlord's property rights in the form of tenure or ownership and fixing a corresponding property tax to be paid by the landlords to the government,[10] for using the public infrastructure, such as canal water for irrigation which results in higher crop yield.

Terms related to chakbandi in the measurement of land in Punjab are: Banjar, Jungle, Abadi, Shamlat, Gair Mumkin, Barani, Nahri, Chahi, Taal, Bigha, Doab, HALRIS, Khadir and Bangar, Khasra, Patwari, Shajra, Zaildar, etc.

Warabandi (वाराबंदी) means the rotational system of a weekly roaster for equitable distribution of irrigation water to the individual chak (field) of each farmer from a sluice outlet.