British Land Settlement Reports

1908 Final Report on the Operations of a Record of Rights in Pargana Porahat District, Singhbhum (1905-07). By Macpherson T. S.
Bengal Secretariat, Calcutta

  • Chapter V: Position of the landlords describes the relation between Mundari villages and the Raja of Porahat and specifically how rajahs were overlords but not land-owners in the Porahat area of Singhbhum district, Jharkhand.
  • Chapter IX: Mundari Khuntkatti provides a detailed description of the Mundari Khuntkatti system as it applied to the Porahat area, Singhbhum district and how Mundari ancestral lands were identified and recorded in the land settlement.