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  • noun Plural form of thana.

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Examples

  • But no matter who I have approached for help, even the DGP office, I have received no support as my husband's uncle, who is under secretary in the UP government, calls up the 'thanas' and the officials I approach and pulls rank. "

    Rohini Episode-Lessons For The Police and society 2009

  • The closed sine die situation pushed the student leader shifted the units from schools, colleges to wards, thanas and districts.

    Campus violence a socio-political problem in Bangladesh 2009

  • West Bengal overcame the Naxalites by strengthening the thanas.

    ‘The problem in Chhattisgarh is not Naxalism. It is the administration’ Abhay N 2007

  • In all cases of rural uprising, violence was directed against those institutions of power with which they interacted directly and immediately, namely tehsils and thanas.

    CPI(Maoist) statement on 150 years of Revolt of 1857 Abhay N 2007

  • All thanas we had the opportunity to observe – including at Nelasnaar, Bhairamgarh, Kutru, Karkeli had inside their heavily barbed wire boundaries the brick barracks of the SPOs of men and women surrounding the main police/ CRPF/SAF thana.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006

  • All thanas we had the opportunity to observe – including at Nelasnaar, Bhairamgarh, Kutru, Karkeli had inside their heavily barbed wire boundaries the brick barracks of the SPOs of men and women surrounding the main police/ CRPF/SAF thana.

    Statement from All India Women's team to Dantewada Abhay N 2006

  • Meanwhile let everyone realise that we are from the armed police, DD, SB and thanas and traffic constantly attacking the enemy.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

  • CPG is intended for official use only and is published daily excepting holidays and is circulated to all superior officers, departments, thanas, police posts and courts...

    Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

  • As for the discussions within experimentalism itself, one finds a reprise of the same old back-and-forth about romanticism (though keyed to standards of sophistication now often taken from recent theoretical discourse rather thanas was once the casefrom modernist poetry): Is the lyric-romantic legacy simplistic or complex?

    Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003

  • They were a great improvement on the old _thanas_, which, although comfortable enough, were not always quite so clean on account of natives using them.

    Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

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