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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryPanchayat in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) a village assembly; arbitration or a body of arbitrators; an assembly of elected representatives; (a gathering for) gossip-mongering; ~[ghara] the seat of the [pamcayata;—jodana/batorana] to cause a gossip gathering, to assemble a team of gossip-mongers; to assemble a body of arbitrators; —[baithana] to submit a dispute to the [pamcayata] for settlement; to assemble a body of arbitrators..—panchayat (पंचायत) is alternatively transliterated as Paṃcāyata.
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Starts with: Pancayattar, Pancayattunama, Panchaayat-samiti, Panchayatana, Panchayatanapuja, Panchayatani, Panchayati.
Full-text: Panchaayat-samiti, Mamsabadara, Panch, Narayanapura, Padapancaita, Sarpanch, Panca, Kovil-vacalmariyal, Pancayata, Bankapura.
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Village Communal Organisations < [November, 1928]
These Village Republics < [December 1937]
Local Government in India (A Book Review) < [January - March 1973]
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
Chapter XCIX - The Grasping Raja < [Part I]
Chapter CXXXVIII - The Divorce < [Part III]
Chapter XCII - The Widow’s Son < [Part I]
Jainism in Odisha (Orissa) (by Ashis Ranjan Sahoo)
Santinatha image at Paramanandapur < [Chapter 3: Survey of Jaina Antiquities in Odisha]
Monoliths (chaumukha/chaturmukha shrines) < [Chapter 4]
Jaina Antiquities in Prachi Valley (Cuttack) < [Chapter 3: Survey of Jaina Antiquities in Odisha]
Temples in and around Madurantakam (by B. Mekala)
Madras Government‘s Opposition to Policy of Withdrawal < [Chapter 7 - Colonial State and Temple]
Relations between Villagers and the Temple < [Chapter 2 - Temples: Role and Influence]
Temples of Munnur (Historical Study) (by R. Muthuraman)
Vijayanagar period < [Chapter 1]
Yajnavalkya-smriti (Vyavaharadhyaya)—Critical study (by Kalita Nabanita)
Chapter 4.3 - Special Adjudicatory Machinery < [Chapter 4 - The Political Aspect Reflected in the Vyavahārādhyāya]
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