Lexicographical Neighbors of Kachcha
Literary usage of Kachcha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores, and Adapting Them by John Percy (1864)
"The iron here, as everywhere in India, is divided into two sorts, kachcha and
pakka ; but these terms have a different signification in each district. ..."
2. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"Take 70 seers, pakka measure, of the seed freed from the pods, add 4 kachcha
seers measure of water (ni nle quart), and beat them in a mortar into a paste. ..."
3. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"and 11 kachcha seers measure of water (a little more than 3 ale quarts).
This produces three maunds (about 7'8 ale gallons) of oil. ..."
4. Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the by Henry Miers Elliot (1869)
"E. *»* There seems to be some connection between the size of the kachcha, or
local, bigha and the value of land in different districts. ..."
5. Thado Grammar by Thomas Callan Hodson (1905)
"kachcha Naga and others have' ... to write, kachcha Naga ‘ Lam, noun, country,
direction, area. Lam, adjective, smooth. Lambi, noun, road, path, ..."
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