pargana
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Etymology
From Urdu پَرَگْنَہ (paragna) (Hindi परगना (paragnā)), from Persian پرگنة.
Noun
pargana (plural parganas)
- (British India) An administrative unit of British Raj, consisting of a number of villages. Since Indian independence, replaced by the block or tahsil.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 165:
- ‘I shall advise His Highness to sanction at least a high school in the capital, and if possible another in each pargana.’
- 2017 April 20, Times of India:
- Many in the BJP, especially tribal leaders from the Santhal Pargana, blamed the crushing defeat against JMM on the CM's organisational skills.