A few decades preceding Independence implies the 1920s, for certain states. 

Obviously, there have been upgrades since 2009 and the Department of Land Resources has a Digital India Land Records Modernisation Program (DILRMP) and the dashboard shows what different states have achieved under DILRMP. 

Utilizing different pointers got through DILRMP, NCAER distributes a Land Records and Services Index (LRSI). 

In the 2020 rankings, the best three states are Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Maharashtra. 

Punjab and Haryana, the foundation of India's Green Revolution and vanguard of India's rancher advantages, rank sixteenth and eighteenth separately. 

DILRMP is regularly about digitizing/modernizing existing area records. However, as that 2009 report referenced, we need studies/re-studies. 

The dashboard lets us know these have been finished in just 11.5 percent of towns. Gujarat, West Bengal and Tripura score high on this (more than 90%). Punjab's history is 0 percent. 

With agribusiness in the State List, should everything be left to the states? 

In the event that land records are in this condition, a few ranchers will possibly be rejected from the rancher definition, since land records have not been refreshed.