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‖ pergunnah, pergana|pəˈgʌnə|
Also 8 purgunnah, 9 pergunna.
[a. Pers. and Urdu parganah district.]
A division of territory in India, comprising a number of villages; a subdivision of a zillah.
1765Holwell Hist. Events i. (1766) 217 The lands of the twenty-four Purgunnahs, ceded to the Company by the treaty of 1757. 1799Grant in R. Patton Asiat. Monarchies (1801) 208 note, The Moghul empire, in its greater divisions of soubahs, circars, pergunnahs, corresponding to our denominations of provinces, counties, hundreds, or parishes. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 536 The office of Kanungo in each Pergana, or district, was revived. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 117 The people of the pergunnah..do not know you.
attrib.1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 464 Where the collections were regulated by pergunna or district rates. |