parishad
Noun
Meaning
parishad (plural parishads)
(chiefly in India) A governmental assembly or council in India.
Examples
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.
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.
Earlier, campaigning for the Vashim Zilla Parishad polls, she had said “we have just come to power, our pockets are not warm enough yet”.
Earlier this month, the Zilla Parishad (ZP) had decided to confine men accused of domestic violence into institutional quarantine centres.
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.
It is one of the fourteen akharas recognized by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and belongs to the Vaishnava sampradaya.