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A killa or acre is measured rectangularly, reckoned as an area 36 karams (198 ft) x 40 karams (220 ft) (43,560 square ft). 1 /5th of a killa or acre is known as bigha 1 Karam = 5.5 feet = 1.83; or Gaj; 1 Yard or Gaj = 36 Inch = 0.91 Metre = 3 feet; 1 Sq Yard = 9 Sq Feet; To convert Sq feet to Sq Yard = Divide by 9
In Western UP, 1 bigha is usually equal to 5 biswa i.e. 6,806.25 square feet (632.321 m 2) or 756.25 square yard. In some districts it can be 6.6667 biswa i.e. 9,075 square feet (843.1 m 2) or 1,008.33 square yard. In Eastern UP, 1 bigha is equal to 20 biswa. Hence 1 Bigha in Purvanchal is 27,225 square feet (2,529.3 m 2) or 3,025 square yard.
1 Daam (दाम) = 1.99 m 2 = 21.39 sq. ft. The units of measurement of area of land depends on the part of the country where they are being used, with the Bigha-Katha-Dhur measurements common in the Terai region while the Ropani-Aana measurements are common in hilly and mountainous regions.
In West Bengal, 1 Katha is equal to 720 ft 2. 1 bigha is equal to 20 Katha; 1 bigha = 14,400 ft 2. 1 Acre = 3.025 Bigha, 1 katha= 16 chatak, 1 chatak=45 sq.ft Nepal
The Tinkathia System was challenged by the Champaran Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi, this in turn became a watershed moment in the Indian independence movement and it was based on that peasants had to grow indigo on the 3 parts of the land out of 20 parts. In other words, a farmer had to grow Indigo in 3 Katha out of 20 Katha (1 Bigha= 20 Katha).
[1] [2] In Afghanistan, however, it is standardized at 2,000 square metres (0.49 acres). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The jerib was roughly equivalent to the other customary land measures in south Asia and the Middle East, the Indian bigha and the Sumerian iku , varying between 1,600 and 3,600 square metres (0.40 and 0.89 acres).
The kos (Hindi: कोस), also spelled coss, koss, kosh, koh(in Punjabi), krosh, and krosha, is a unit of measurement which is derived from a Sanskrit term, क्रोश krośa, which means a 'call', as the unit was supposed to represent the distance at which another human could be heard.
[1] [2] It had a population of 17,000 people in 2014. [3] Dahagram–Angarpota was the second-largest enclave and the largest Bangladeshi enclave among historical Indo-Bangladesh enclaves. It is connected to mainland Bangladesh by the Tin Bigha Corridor, which is situated in Patgram Upazila of Lamonirhat district.