Meanings
- A district of Odisha, India.
The peculiar links between land, labour, credit and market have trapped the peasants of Kalahandi region.
1996, P Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2182 more examples
The rising of Khonds of Kālāhandi in 1882 was caused by their discontent at being ousted from their lands by Koltas. The Rājā of Kālāhandi had imported a number of Kolta cultivators, and these speedily got the Khond headmen and ryots into their debt, and possessed themselves of all the best land in the Khond villages.
1916, R. V. Russell, Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, volume 3, page 542The old state of Kalahandi included all the present district of Kalahandi, except Nawapara, which was a zemindari within Sambalpur district. All the other ex-zemindars who live in the present Kalahandi district are former feudatories of [...]
1963, F. G. Bailey, Politics and Social Change; Orissa in 1959, University of California Press, page 115
Origin
- orକଳାହାଣ୍ଡି
- EnglishKalahandi
Borrowed from Odia କଳାହାଣ୍ଡି (kaḷāhāṇḍi).
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