Question

Under Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, a female of a Khunt-Kattidar is
1. Excluded from the inheritance rights on ancestral properties
2. Is guaranteed equal rights as men
3.  Possess Khunt-Kattidar rights
4. None of the above

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Excluded from the inheritance rights on ancestral properties

The correct answer is Excluded from the inheritance rights on ancestral properties.

• Under the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act, 1908, a female of a Khunt-Kattidar is excluded from the inheritance rights on ancestral properties.
• When the forthwith landlord of an occupancy holding is a proprietor or an abiding tenure-holder and the entire interests of the landlords
• The Raiyat in the holding become composite in the same person by transfer, succession, or otherwise, such a person, shall hold the land as a proprietor or permanent tenure-holder, as the case may be, and shall not hold it by any inferior right whatsoever; but nothing in this subsection shall prejudicially affect the rights of any third person.
• The words "male descendants" wherever occurring, would comprise females.

• The descendants of the Munda founder of the village are called thus.
• He along with his lineage brothers owns the village including the land and the forest within its boundary.
• They do not pay tax but rent for the land. 
• According to the Settlement report of 1927, there were only 156  intact and  449 broken Mundari Khunt-Katti villages that survived in  RANCHI District.
• In the intact villages, the land is under the control of the Mundas only whereas in the broken ones people who are not the descendant of the original founder,  including non-tribals, have occupied land.