Section 2(2)(ix) in The Maharashtra Merged Territories and Areas (Jagirs Abolition) Act, 1954
(ix)"Jiwai jagir" means a village held by the holder thereof for the purposes of his maintenance by virtue of a grant, whether known as Jiwai or by any other name, made by a Ruler of a former Indian State in the merged territories or by a talukdar of a merged taluka or estate in the merged areas;