pargana
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pargana (plural parganas)
- (India) An administrative unit of India, consisting of a number of villages. [from 17th c.]
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 165
- ‘I shall advise His Highness to sanction at least a high school in the capital, and if possible another in each pargana.’
- 2017, Times of India, 20 April
- Many in the BJP, especially tribal leaders from the Santhal Pargana, blamed the crushing defeat against JMM on the CM's organisational skills.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 165
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