DAFTAR – I – QANUNGOI

The exact date of the establishment of Daftar-i-Qanungoi has not been conformed but its records available from 1221 H./ 1806 A.D. There had been two officers of Qanungoi one for the Hyderabad Suba and other for the Bidar Suba. The functions of this daftar were to solve the boundary disputes of villages and agricultural lands. Wherever disputes arose a Qanungoi (High officials) handled all the disputes matters during the early Asaf Jahi period.

The Daftar-i-Qanungoi records pertaining to the files regarding the decision made in referred cases of lands and boundary disputes, the files consist of sanads, ahkams, qabalnamajats, bainamajat, chakbandi, razinamajat. The records of Daftar are in Persian and were transferred to the Daftar-i-Diwani in 1940.

The detailed Particulars of the records of Daftar-i-Qanungoi are shown below:

S.No	Nature of the Document	Periodicity	No.of Documents approximately
1	Ahkams (Orders) Paper	1807-1929 A.D.	9270
2	Bainamajats (Sale deeds)	-	-
3	Chak bandis (Deeds)	-	-
4	Qabalajats (Sale deeds)	-	-
5	Razinamajats (Agreements, deeds, acknowledgements)	-	-
6	Sanads (Certificates of land grants)	-	-