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plural parganas
(India) An administrative unit of India, consisting of a number of villages. Since Indian independence, replaced by the block or tahsil. quotations examples
‘I shall advise His Highness to sanction at least a high school in the capital, and if possible another in each pargana.’
1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 165
Many in the BJP, especially tribal leaders from the Santhal Pargana, blamed the crushing defeat against JMM on the CM's organisational skills.
2017 April 20, Times of India