单词 | tehsil |
释义 | tehsiln. In India and Pakistan: an administrative division comprising several villages; (formerly) spec. a division made for purposes of revenue administration. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in India and Pakistan tehsil1846 union1869 1846 Directions for Collectors of Land Revenue N.W. Provinces (India) App. VI. p. xxx Comparing the tuhseel monthly accounts..with the cancelled dustuks. 1849 Direct. Rev. Off. N.W. Prov. 344 Disbursements for a tehseel division. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 769/2 Broadly speaking, the subdivision is characteristic of Bengal..and the tahsil of Madras. 1921 Glasgow 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. 1944 Visct. 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. 1954 O. 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. 1962 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Aug. 2/7 The four-tier scheme of basic democracies—at the village, tehsil, district and division levels. 1968 N. Mitchell Sir George Cunningham v. 100 From 14th to 18th November he was touring on horseback in the Nowshera and Swabi Tahsils. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 7/2 A very senior and respected elder of our tehsil tried to stop me to ask me something. 1975 Bangladesh 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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