thana

plural thanas · alternative tana · alternative tanna · alternative tannah · alternative thanna · alternative thannah

1. IndiaA military outpost.
2. IndiagovernmentA police station or police jurisdiction.

   Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order.

   2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 70

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   To this talk the dacoits agreed, and we had no trouble at the Thana, and could eat melons in peace, sitting upon our charpoys all day long.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 387

3. BangladeshA subdistrict in cities, equivalent to upazilas.

1. alternativeAlternative form of Thane (“Indian city”).

   On April 18, 1853, the first passenger train ran on Indian soil, from Bombay to Thana, and this 20-mile section of line thus became the forerunner of the great 43,000 route-mile system that eventually covered British India.

   1953 April, “A Century of Railway Development in India”, in Railway Magazine, page 219