The words in plain English

• 7/12: the village land record for a survey number, which names the person who holds it and records the area, the tenure and any notes about charges on it. See step 01
• Village Form 7, or VF-7: the half of the 7/12 that carries the survey number details. See step 01
• khata, or Village Form 8-A: a landholder's account in the village record, listing every survey number that person holds in that village. See step 02
• mutation, or ferfar: the entry that moves a new owner's name into the land record. Until it is certified the 7/12 still shows the seller. See step 20
• Village Form 6: the register of every past mutation on a piece of land. See step 03
• 135-D notice: the notice the revenue office issues for a mutation that has been entered but not yet certified, which is how a buyer sees a transfer in progress. See step 03
• record of rights: the formal name for the village land record maintained by the Revenue Department. See step 01
• digitally signed copy: the version of a village form that carries a digital signature, as opposed to the free on-screen view, and the one a bank or the Sub-Registrar will accept. See step 04
• encumbrance certificate: a certificate of the charges and mortgages registered against a property, which is how you find out the land is already pledged. See step 06
• Index-2: the summary entry of a registered document, carrying the property description, the names of the two sides and the document number. See step 08
• jantri, or Annual Statement of Rates: the government's own rate table for land, which sets the value stamp duty is calculated on. See step 10
• agriculturist: a person the Tenancy Act treats as a farmer, which matters because a sale of farmland to anyone else needs the Collector's permission first. See step 11
• tenure: whether land is old tenure, which can be sold freely, or new tenure, also called navi sharat, which is restricted until a premium is paid. See step 13
• non-agricultural permission, or NA: permission to use farmland for something other than farming, without which no building plan can be approved. See step 15
• stamp duty: the duty payable on the transfer itself, charged on the market value of non-agricultural land whatever the deed says. See step 17
• registration fee: a separate charge payable to the registration department when the deed is registered, on top of stamp duty. See step 18
• varsai: an inheritance entry, which records the heirs of a dead holder in the village record so the land can be dealt with afterwards. See step 21
• property card: the record of rights for land inside a city survey area, which is the urban equivalent of the 7/12. See step 23
• allotment: the way land inside Dholera SIR is given out: a lease from the government company rather than a sale of freehold. See step 30
• earnest money deposit, or EMD: the deposit put up with an application or a bid, set in the allotment policy as a percentage of the reserve price. See step 30
• building use permission, or BU: permission to occupy and use a finished building, granted after the development permission has been acted on. See step 34
• single window: one route through which a new unit's approvals are handled, run by the Apex Authority instead of department by department. See step 35

Registration and mutation get mixed up constantly, and the difference costs people their name on the record. Registering the deed is the Sub-Registrar recording that a document exists between two parties. Mutation is the revenue office changing who the land record says holds the land. The first does not do the second, and until the second happens the 7/12 still shows the seller.

The other pair is tenure and title. Title is whether the seller owns it. Tenure is whether the law lets it be sold at all, which is a separate question, and new tenure land with perfect title still cannot be transferred until the premium is paid.