Noun
parishad (plural parishads)
(chiefly in India) A governmental assembly or council in India.
One imagines the scornful secularist reaction if the Vishva Hindu Parishad had based its Ayodhya claims on a dream; yet, the numerous Christians in India's secularist coalition have not made any plans to relinquish the Church's dream-based claims on the pilgrimage sites in Palestine. Koenraad Elst
On September 13 last year, he turned down a plea by Gautam Navlakha, accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, seeking to quash the FIR filed against him by Pune police. Source: Internet
Earlier, campaigning for the Vashim Zilla Parishad polls, she had said “we have just come to power, our pockets are not warm enough yet”. Source: Internet
Earlier this month, the Zilla Parishad (ZP) had decided to confine men accused of domestic violence into institutional quarantine centres. Source: Internet
Hafizul Ahmed, president of the Sadou Asom Goria-Moria-Deshi Jatiya Parishad that speaks for indigenous Assamese Muslims, told The Indian Express that there should not be a base year for identifying the indigenous people of Assam. Source: Internet
It is one of the fourteen akharas recognized by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and belongs to the Vaishnava sampradaya. Source: Internet