Definition of Pargana

1. an administrative sub-region in India [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pargana

parfitly
parfleche
parfleches
parflesh
parfleshes
parfocal
parfocal objectives
parfocalities
parfocality
parfocalize
parfocalized
parfocalizes
parfocalizing
parfumier
parfumiers
pargana (current term)
parganas
pargasite
pargasites
parge coat
parged
parges
parget
pargeted
pargeter
pargeters
pargeting
pargetings
pargetry

Literary usage of Pargana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mathurá ; a District Memoir: A District Memoir by Frederic Salmon Growse (1883)
"THE pargana of Mat is the most northern of the three on the east of the Jamuna, and is a long, narrow, straggling tract of country lying between the river ..."

2. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1893)
"... and Utara in the Ujjain pargana, and states that he originally held 500 bighas of land iu the village of Dabri. Anup Singh, the Thakur with whom the ..."

3. The Land-systems of British India: Being a Manual of the Land-tenures and of by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1892)
"These are—(1) Jhansi Division districts—Jhansi, Lalitpur, and Jalaun ; (2) the hill country of Kumaon and British Garh- wal, and the pargana of ..."

4. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1893)
"... to merit the indulgence, the circumstances of his family would receive favourable consideration after his death. In 1831 the pargana of Eastern ..."

5. District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh by H. R. Nevill, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (1904)
"... circle comprises the whole of the pargana of that name, ... while the remainder of pargana Baghpat is divided between the Baleni and ..."

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