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Kalahandi
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en or କଳାହାଣ୍ଡି.
Proper noun
en district s/Odisha c/India.
en 1916 R. V. Russell Rai Bahadur Hira Lal Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of 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 the Khond villages. 3 542 https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6230/page/n577/mode/1up
en 1963 F. G. Bailey Politics and Social Change; Orissa in 1959 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 [...] University of California Press 115 https://archive.org/details/politicssocialch0000unse/page/115/mode/1up
en 1996 P Sainath w:Everybody Loves a Good Drought The peculiar links between land, labour, credit and market have trapped the peasants of Kalahandi region. Penguin Books 9780140259841 320902M 97901546 36806980 218 https://archive.org/details/everybodylovesgo0000sain/page/217/mode/1up