bhiga

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noun

A unit of land area used in India, Bangladesh, and Nepa that varies in size from one-third to one acre.

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nounbhiga (plural bhiga)
  1. measurementA unit of land area used in India, Bangladesh, and Nepa that varies in size from one-third to one acre.

    Janfu Ullah and his brother lived in Morizpur with about three bhiga of land.

    1995 February 23, Katy Gardner, Global Migrants, Local Lives : Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh, Clarendon Press, page 61
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    BIGHA Bhiga or Beegha a land measure varying in extent in different parts of India.

    1885, The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, third edition, volume 1, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 358

    Sixty-six percent of the farmers cultivated up to 5 bhiga of land, and 20 percent cultivated 5 to 10 bhiga' land for crops.

    2022, Raza, A., Pandey, H., Lobo, A.S., Ganpule-Rao, A., Urban food system and nutrition assessment in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India: Project report, Food & Agriculture Org, →ISBN, page 49

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