Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the village communities of Hindustan, a committee of five men sitting as a jury to try offenses against caste, etc., or as an administrative council or the like.
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- noun a village council in India or southern Pakistan
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Examples
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The punchayet have bigger challenges to sponsor fertility programme and increases subsidies as families grow, for the community faces its own survival battle.
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The punchayet says the aviary idea does not sound viable, but insists it has little money to support it, given its obligations to subsidize Mumbai's Parsis from cradle to grave.
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That made the Three very angry (with the world so new-and-all), and they held a palaver, and an _indaba_, and a _punchayet_, and a pow-wow on the edge of the Desert; and the Camel came chewing on milkweed _most_
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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