pargana

English

Alternative forms

• parganah, pergunnah, purgana, purganna, purgannah

Etymology

From Urdu پَرَگْنَہ (paragna) (Hindi परगना (paragnā)), from Persian پرگنة.

Noun

pargana (plural parganas)

1. (British India) An administrative unit of British Raj, consisting of a number of villages. [from 17th c.] Since Indian independence, replaced by the block or tahsil.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 165:

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

   • 2017 April 20, Times of India:

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

Anagrams

• Angrapa