Lexicographical Neighbors of Parganas
Literary usage of Parganas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"Santal parganas, The.—District in the Lieutenant-Governorship of Bengal, ...
The Santal parganas form the southern portion of the Bhagalpur Division. ..."
2. The Western Rajputana States: A Medico-topographical and General Account of by Archibald Adams (1899)
"The parganas themselves are grouped together in sii circles, ... The northern
parganas are three in number, and vary greatly in character, Nagore being ..."
3. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1877)
"Kulti Gang, river in the 24 parganas, i. ... Kurmis, a caste of cultivators, 24
parganas, i. ... market village in the 24 parganas, i. 227. ..."
4. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1898)
"... parganas—THE HIGHEST PEAK IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE—NATURAL BOUNDARIES THERE are
two principal highways from Khela to Hundes—one by the valley of the Dholi ..."
5. In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey Into Tibet, Capture by the by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1909)
"... parganas—THE HIGHEST PEAK IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE—NATURAL BOUNDARIES THERE are
two principal highways from Khela to Hundes—one by the valley of the Dholi ..."
6. The Táj-ul Ikbál Tárikh Bhopal, Or, The History of Bhopal by Shāh Jahān̲ Begam (1876)
"My late mother divided this country into three parts: the first part, named the
Southern Division, contains 8 parganas, viz. ..."
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