Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elected village council in India.
- noun A traditional village, caste, or tribal council in South Asia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
punchayet .
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- noun A village
council or localgovernment in South Asia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a village council in India or southern Pakistan
Etymologies
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Examples
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(A panchayat is a five-person elected village council.)
What Is the Role of Women in Indian Politics? Growing Stronger... 2009
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The last time we had met the C.O., he released a measly sum of Rs. 2000 to each panchayat, which is not enough even for tea and snacks chai-nashta.
Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006
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The last time we had met the C.O., he released a measly sum of Rs. 2000 to each panchayat, which is not enough even for tea and snacks chai-nashta.
Voices from Bhopalpatnam on Salwa Judum Abhay N 2006
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ALAPPUZHA: The Mannancherry grama panchayat, which is all set to be declared a village with no fallow land on Saturday, is in a festive mood what with delegates from several other panchayats and students from the Kerala Agricultural University coming down to witness the declaration.
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Brinda Adige, daughter of an Air Force officer and wife of a businessman, entered Lakshman Rau Nagar two years ago with the traditional Indian mat of "panchayat," or local justice, when nobody else would address a flagrant case of wife-beating.
Christopher Lydon: Walking the Slum Side of Bangalore (AUDIO) 2010
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Tankadhar's village falls under Lapanga gram panchayat which is surrounded by industrial units whose dependency on ground water has gone up in recent times.
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Tankadhar's village falls under Lapanga gram panchayat which is surrounded by industrial units whose dependency on ground water has gone up in recent times.
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Many of them now wield enough backdoor political clout to ignore pollution control rules, members of the 'panchayat' or local village assembly say.
IPS Inter Press Service Manipadma Jena <editors@ipsnews.net> 2010
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Rau Nagar two years ago with the traditional Indian mat of "panchayat," or local justice, when nobody else would address a flagrant case of wife-beating.
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Bhiwani (Haryana): A community 'panchayat' on Sunday asked the family of a man, who it claims had married within the same gotra, to leave its village within a week and sell its property in three months.
எழில் ????? 2010
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