Khadir and Bangar

[4] The Khadir is also called Nali in the northern Haryana which is the fertile prairie tract between the Ghaggar river and the southern limits of the Saraswati channel depression that gets flooded during the rains.

[1] Sri Sri Ravi's Art of Living Foundation World Culture Festival, 2016 (11 March) was held on Yamuna's Khadir floodplains and National Green Tribunal (NGT) recommended a fine of INR 50 million, on Art of Living Foundation for damaging ecology on Yamuna's Khadar flood plains.

Bangar/Bangad/Bhangar (Hindi: बांगर) areas are beyond the floodplains,[2] that lie more upland, and compared to Khadar it consists of older alluvial soil which is higher in sandy loam content.

[5][6] A Bangar area, can be further subdivided into the following based on the type of irrigation:[7][8] Zamindar (landlord) is the Indian legal term for the owner of land.

[15] Historically, villages in the doabs have been officially classified as khadir, khadir-bangar (i.e. mixed) or bangar for many centuries and different agricultural tax rates applied based on a tiered land-productivity scale.