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‖ thana, tana E. Ind.|ˈtɑːnə|
Also tanna(h, thanna(h.
[Hindī thāna, thānā.]
a. A police station in India; formerly, a military station or fortified post.
1803Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) II. 251, I give you notice, that you may have your tannahs prepared in your villages and desire them to defend them. 1834A. Prinsep Baboo II. xi. 202 (Stanf.) The Burkundazes at last came up from the Thana. 1879Low Jrnl. Gen. Abbott iii. 214 Thannahs (posts) for the protection of the Cabul were re-established. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 212 They were found..near the police thana on the Futupore Road.
b. (See quot. 1961).
1936W. H. Saumarez Smith Let. 5 Dec. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 45, I am making a tour of all the thanas this fortnight. 1961L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 450/2 Thānā, a political division of a district which is under the jurisdiction of a single police-station so that a thana is really a police-station area. 1975Bangladesh Times 19 July 3/2 Besides forty three members of Jessore district and thana units of the defunct organisation have applied for the membership of BKSAL. 1977Ibid. 19 Jan. 12/3 He made a plea for the abolition of..divisions, districts, sub-divisions and thanas because they are..ineffective for today's needs.
Hence ‖ thanadar |tɑːnəˈdɑː(r)| [Hindī thānadār], the head officer of a police station in India; formerly the commander of a military post.
1802C. James Milit. Dict. (1816), Tannadar, a commander of a small fort. 1834A. Prinsep Baboo I. xviii. 326 (Stanf.) Thou must be a Thanadar at least. 1897L. J. Trotter J. Nicholson xvii. (1908) 233 He suspended a thanadar whom he caught in an act of oppression. |