pargana

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1. BritishIndiaAn administrative unit of British Raj, consisting of a number of villages. Since Indian independence, replaced by the block or tahsil.First known use 17th c.

   ‘I shall advise His Highness to sanction at least a high school in the capital, and if possible another in each pargana.’

   1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 165

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   Many in the BJP, especially tribal leaders from the Santhal Pargana, blamed the crushing defeat against JMM on the CM's organisational skills.

   2017 April 20, Times of India