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‖ tahsil|tɑːˈsiːl|
Also tehsil, † tuhseel.
[Urdu; cf. tahsildar.]
In India and Pakistan, an administrative division comprising several villages; formerly spec. a division made for purposes of revenue administration.
1846Directions for Collectors of Land Revenue N.W. Provinces (India) App. VI. p. xxx, Comparing the tuhseel monthly accounts..with the cancelled dustuks. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 769/2 Broadly speaking, the subdivision is characteristic of Bengal..and the tahsil of Madras. 1921Glasgow Herald 19 Dec. 12 All district Congress Committees..must send out parties of about 20 Volunteers as a patrol daily in every town, tahsil, and village. 1944Visct. Wavell Let. 7 Mar. in Transfer of Power in India (Foreign & Commonw. Office) (1973) IV. 784 Whilst I was at Nagpur I visited a village, a rural tahsil office, and a small irrigation work. 1954O. H. K. Spate India & Pakistan p. xxiii, The States of India are divided (if large enough) into Divisions and these into Districts... Districts are subdivided into taluks (taluqs) or tahsils (tehsils) normally from 3 to 8 to a district. 1962Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Aug. 2/7 The four-tier scheme of basic democracies—at the village, tehsil, district and division levels. 1968N. Mitchell Sir G. Cunningham v. 100 From 14th to 18th November he was touring on horseback in the Nowshera and Swabi Tahsils. 1971Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 7/2 A very senior and respected elder of our tehsil tried to stop me to ask me something. 1975Bangladesh Observer 25 July 4/1 (Advt.), For Tahsil copy in the left hand side of the volume there will be a pocket..for keeping maps. |