单词 | pargana |
释义 | parganan. In India: an administrative district, comprising a number of villages; a subdivision of a zilla. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in India pargana1614 sirkar1627 zilla1772 district1776 mahal1793 taluk1793 mohalla1825 1614 T. Keridge Let. 20 Sept. in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1897) II. 106 I wrote him to stay in the pregonas near Agra. 1765 J. Z. Holwell Interesting Hist. Events (1766) i. 217 The lands of the twenty-four Purgunnahs, ceded to the Company by the treaty of 1757. 1799 Grant in R. Patton Asiatic 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. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 536 The office of Kanungo in each Pergana, or district, was revived. 1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 117 The people of the pergunnah..do not know you. 1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky i. viii. 100 The English Philosophical Magazine for 1803..refers to a meteoric iron which fell in the pargana of Jalindhar, Lahore, India, in 1620. 2004 Hindu (Nexis) 3 Oct. Loyalties towards village and pargana sometimes override caste loyalties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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