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sarpanches

sarpanches is the plural of sarpanch.

Meaning of sarpanch

Noun

sarpanch (plural sarpanches)

  1. The elected head of a panchayat (village government) in Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan.
    • Recourse to arbitration is not an uncommon mode of setting a dispute. Generally the number of arbitrators appointed is three, but sometimes five is the number, and occasionally some one individual is made single arbitrator (hasar karna). If more than one arbitrator be appointed, an umpire (or...[1874, “Banda District”, in Edwin T. Atkinson, editor, Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-western Provinces of India, volume I (BundelKhand), Allahabad: Printed at the...

Questions about sarpanches

What is sarpanches the plural of?
Sarpanches is the plural of sarpanch.

Words near sarpanches in the dictionary

  1. Saroyan
  2. Saroyanesque
  3. Sarpa Satra
  4. sarpagandha
  5. sarpanch
  6. sarpanches
  7. Sarpang
  8. Sarpanit
  9. Sarpanitu
  10. sarpat
  11. sarpe

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