Definition of Cultural Resources in Majuli Core Area and Buffer Area or Majuli Cultural Landscape Region.
HYDROLOGIC TYPE
Small Ponds (pukhuris);
such as washing or homestead fishery.
Hola (depression in fields):
Holas are natural depressions in the paddy fields, mostly located in the interior landscape, smaller than a wetland (beel) are shared by local communities for feeding, washing cows, buffaloes sometimes fishing. Various economically important local grasses, weeds are also found here. During rainy season water gets accumulated due to slopes which may get dry.
Khal (a man made linear dug out for making roads):
Usually found alongside the road as shallow ravine. The khals are man made water bodies which are created as leftover linear dug out earth from which is dumped for constructing the road. The khals exhibit multipurpose use of a fishery, a vegetable yard on a hanging bamboo palisade and a boundary for the household.
Dubi/ Duba (water body near road caused by seasonal flood):
A dynamic creation of flood, scouring of shifting river channel in the riparian flood plains of Majuli, a dubi becomes identifiable only post flood season when water recedes, which leaves the channels dry, and dubi or a deep sheet of leftover water along the source remains. The dubis/ dubas get charged with floodwater again in the subsequent season and therefore it becomes a constant source of fish and other aquatic species from the river.
Pitoni/ Doloni (shallow marshy land with savannah type of grass):
A pitoni and a doloni, in local term for shallow marshy land is usually found in the interior landscape of Majuli. Sometimes they are fed by streams or small channels, remains muddy with ankle deep water. A prime spot for various zoo and phytoplankton, various reeds such as khagori, nal and other medium height savannah type of grasses along with water weeds, it is a major breeding ground for most of the migratory and local birds. Fishes mostly murrel and cat types are abundant here which attracts birds from Bortokola to Kamsarai. In summer noon buffaloes and cows are found to be grazing and wallowing in these shallow and muddy swamps.
Beel (large wetlands)
Large static water bodies connected by small streams or depressions, most of the times beels in Majuli are directly connected to interior large streams or Brahmaputra river in high floods. They sometime form a water network system with various other water components such as pitoni, jan, small rivers etc. A identifiable entity for its largeness beels are mostly shared by all the villages surrounding it for fish, aquatic plants, economic plants and as a water source for winter paddy and rabi crops.
Jan (small stream, may dry up in seasonal variation)
Suti (perennial stream)
Nadi/ Noi (River)
LAND TYPE
FIELDS
Low land/ High Land/ Open field/ River Bank etc.
Dhanoni (paddy field)
Mahtoli (Pulse field)
Sariah toll (mustard field)
Grazing Land
Temporal islets and sand bars (Char/ Chapori)
Forest Areas (vegetation types-deciduous/ evergreen/legumes/ shrub etc. entire bio-resource)
Groves (a spatial area where the grasses are grown/ found)
Noloni (Nal reeds in low lying areas)
Khagori (Khagori reed in low lying areas)
Ikora (Ikra char, savannah vegetation)
Kahuwa (char, savannah grass)
Kheroni (char, savannah grass)
Bahoni and Betoni (bamboo and cane)
SETTLEMENT TYPE:
Mishing Village: Dahgam and Baragam or spatially located near natural components/architecture etc.
Deori Village: All Deori villages
Sonowal Kachari Village:
Professional Villages:
Potters village
Weavers Village
Fisherman Village
Special Craft Village
Village with predominant practice of art and culture
Sattra region village:
Villages which come under direct sattra influence
Villages/ areas with indirect customary laws of Sattra.
Section 99 • THE MAJULI CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REGION ACT, 2006
Schedule - APPENDIX
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Section 99
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