Land Record Time Machine

LAND RECORDS THROUGHTIME

Reconstruct a dag or patta on any past date — ownership, area, land class and boundary, with the evidence behind each change.

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A Date-Specific View

Every parcelhas a past.

Choose a district, circle, mouza, village, dag or patta, and historical date. Replay recorded events to see how the parcel stood — with source pages, confidence grades, and gaps made clear.

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Illustrated relief map of Assam showing the Brahmaputra valley and southern Barak valley.
Parcel Time ViewReconstruct any recorded dateCompare DatesSee exactly what changedDag LineageTrace splits & resurveysSource ViewerInspect scanned evidence
Visual illustration only · No official cadastral maps, owners, or historical records are connected.
Legacy Records to Dated Events

How history becomes traceable.

Every reconstruction starts with a source. Legacy Jamabandi, Chitha and mutation records are digitized, checked and linked to their changes.

01

Catalogue & Scan

Preserve register pages, old maps and orders with their village, year and source details.

02

Transcribe & Verify

OCR suggests values; trained operators and verifiers confirm them against the scan.

03

Replay & Trace

Approved, dated events reconstruct the parcel, its lineage and the linked evidence.

Uncertain dates remain date ranges. Missing records remain visible gaps. Nothing is silently guessed.
Two Answers, One History

What the register said.
What we now know.

Every event has an effective date and a recorded date. These modes reveal why a later correction can change our present understanding of an earlier year.

01 / REGISTER MODE

As the register stood

“What did the official register say on the selected historical date?”

Includes only events effective and recorded by that date.
02 / KNOWN MODE

As now known

“Given later corrections, what do we understand about that historical date today?”

Includes events effective by that date, including later corrections.
Try it · Illustrative dagDrag through sixty years of one dag.Set the date to 2010, then switch modes: a correction recorded in 2019 changes how 2004 reads today.

Real satellite imagery near Nagaon. The dag drawn on it, its owners and its history are fictional.

Historical date2010
DagPattadarAreaLand class
214/1B1 B 2 KRupit (paddy)
214/2C1 B 3 KRupit (paddy)

CWeakest confidence grade in this view

The two modes disagree on this date: an event recorded later changes what we know about it.

Evidence
  1. B
    Original survey entryChitha 1966 · p. 41 · effective 1966 · recorded 1966
  2. C
    Inheritance mutationJamabandi 1986 · entry 112 · effective 1984 · recorded 1986
  3. A
    Partition into 214/1 and 214/2Mutation order 2004/37 · effective 2004 · recorded 2004
  4. A
    Area correction to the 2004 partitionCorrection order 2019/08 · effective 2004 · recorded 2019 · not in this view
  5. A
    214/1 converted to homesteadConversion order 2012/15 · effective 2012 · recorded 2012 · not in this view

The demo dag, owners and orders are fictional and explain the two replay modes only. This page contains no actual parcel or ownership data.

Evidence, Access & Accountability

Show the source.
Never hide uncertainty.

Every historical value carries its source and confidence grade (A–D). Gaps stay marked; reconstructed reports are watermarked; searches, scans and exports are audit-logged. The proposed pilot is limited to authorized officers and their jurisdictions.

Reconstructed view, not a certified copy. For certified records, apply to the competent authority.
Proposed pilot: 20 weeks · 1 Revenue Circle · 5 villages · officer-only access
Pilot at a Glance

Small by design.
Measured before it grows.

  • 20weeks

    Proposed pilot duration

  • 5villages

    Within one Revenue Circle

  • A–Dgrades

    Confidence shown on every value

  • 0overwrites

    Corrections are added as dated events