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Kalahandi

Kalahandi proper noun: a district of Odisha, India.

Proper noun

Kalahandi

  1. A district of Odisha, India.
    • The rising of Khonds of Kālāhandi in 1882 was caused by their discontent at being ousted from their lands by Koltas. The Rājā of Kālāhandi had imported a number of Kolta cultivators, and these speedily got the Khond headmen and ryots into their debt, and possessed themselves of all the best land in...1916, R. V. Russell, Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, volume 3, page 542
    • The old state of Kalahandi included all the present district of Kalahandi, except Nawapara, which was a zemindari within Sambalpur district. All the other ex-zemindars who live in the present Kalahandi district are former feudatories of [...]1963, F. G. Bailey, Politics and Social Change; Orissa in 1959, University of California Press, page 115

Origin of Kalahandi

Borrowed from Odia କଳାହାଣ୍ଡି (kaḷāhāṇḍi).

Questions about Kalahandi

What does Kalahandi mean?
Kalahandi means a district of Odisha, India.
What part of speech is Kalahandi?
Kalahandi is a proper noun.

Words near Kalahandi in the dictionary

  1. kalafungin
  2. kalaga
  3. Kalagan
  4. Kalagans
  5. kalagas
  6. Kalahandi
  7. Kalahari
  8. Kalahari Desert
  9. Kalaidhoo
  10. kalakaar
  11. kalakaars

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