Noun
pargana (plural parganas)
(India) An administrative unit of India, consisting of a number of villages. [from 17th c.] Since Indian independence, replaced by the block or tahsil.
Jahangir ordered that "a government collector or Jagirdar should not without permission intermarry with the people of the pargana in which he might be” for abduction and forced marriages were common enough. Jahangir