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'''Patta''' ([[Hindi]]: [https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BE पट्टा]) is a type of [[Deed|land deed]] issued by the government to an individual or organization. The term is used in India<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5FX2jyJ8yoC&dq=patta+land&pg=PA62|title=India|last=Bhagat|first=Pamela|date=2004|publisher=Oxfam|isbn=9780855984953|location=|pages=62|language=en}}</ref> and certain other parts of South Asia for a small piece of land, granted by the government to an approved cultivator with a land revenue exemption. The period of exemption is what is required to bring the land under cultivation.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xOyvvnUnA-8C&dq=patta+land&pg=PA139|title=The Rice Industry of Burma, 1852-1940: (First Reprint 2012)|last=Siok-Hwa|first=Cheng|date=2012|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=9789812304391|location=|pages=139|language=en}}</ref> These land deeds were associated with the process of [[land reform in India]], after the [[British Raj|colonial period]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOewAAAAIAAJ&q=patta+land|title=The Experience of Poverty: Fighting for Respect and Resources in Village India|last=Beck|first=Tony|date=1994|publisher=Intermediate Technology|isbn=9781853392184|location=|pages=112|language=en}}</ref> A person holding a ''patta'' is known as a pattadar.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RD0eAQAAIAAJ&q=pattadar|title=Land, Politics, and Trade in South Asia|last=Subrahmanyam|first=Sanjay|date=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195667073|location=|pages=259|language=en}}</ref><br />
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