The Raja of Jitgarh and Mohkot in Nimar has a long account in his genealogy of a treacherous massacre of a whole tribe of Nahals by his ancestor in Akbar's time, in recognition of which the Jitgarh pargana was granted to the family.
Similarly Elliot says of the Bhars: "Common tradition assigns to them the possession of the whole tract from Gorakhpur to Bundelkhand and Saugor, and the large pargana of Bhadoi or Bhardai in Benares is called after their name.
Elliot states that the Bhars formerly occupied the whole of Azamgarh, the pargana of Bara in Allahabad and Khariagarh in the Kanauj tract.
It is also supposed that the names may come from the Ameth parganaof Oudh.
In Bilaspur and Raipur they say they came from Badhar, a pargana in the Mirzapur District, adjoining Rewah.
When the Pargana questioned her she confessed everything and was punished.
Over a group of villages is the pargana or tribal chief.
He was not at all afraid of the tigers and understood all they said and one day he heard them saying that the Pargana (tribal chief) tiger was a great man-eater.
The pargana was transferred, as the money payment could not be agreed upon; and in September Mr. Martin, who had succeeded Sir E.
To the arrangement proposed by Mr. Martin the younger brothers strongly objected; and proposed in preference to make over the pargana to the British Government, on condition of receiving the net revenue, whatever might be the amount.
The grounds alleged by him were not considered valid, and the pargana was made over to Shams-ud-dîn.
Whether the term Santal was derived from the Saont pargana or not, it is therefore at any rate a name conferred by the Hindus and affords no evidence in favour of a separate origin of the tribe.
Under Maratha rule the Deshmukh was a Pargana officer who collected the revenue of the Pargana or small subdivision, and other taxes, receiving a certain share.
The settlement is composed of two distinct parts; Damman and the pargana of Nagar Haveli, separated by a territory belonging to the English and by a railroad running through Bombay, Baroda, and Central India.
Its superficial area is eighty-two square miles, comprising the pargana of Nagar Haveli.
The people of the Painkhanda Pargana use this pass as well as the other passes of Malla Shilanch and Tumzun, besides the Shorhoti, visited by H.
Jagat Sing Pal, the Rajiwar's nephew, assured me that the people of the Askote Parganaare brave and good-natured.
This range and its ramifications divide the valleys of the Gori River (the Pargana of Johar) from the most Western portion of Bhot, the Painkhanda Pargana.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pargana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
