Pargana

Alternative forms

• parganah
• pergunnah

Origin

From (), of uncertain origin.

Full definition of pargana

Noun

1. (India) An administrative unit of India, consisting of a number of villages. from 17th c.
• 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 165‘I shall advise His Highness to sanction at least a high school in the capital, and if possible another in each pargana.’
• 2017, Times of India, 20 AprilMany in the BJP, especially tribal leaders from the Santhal Pargana, blamed the crushing defeat against JMM on the CM's organisational skills.

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