gram panchayat

Questions

What does gram panchayat mean?

A form of local governance of a village or between small groups of villages in India.

Where does gram panchayat come from?

Borrowed from Hindi ग्राम पंचायत (grām pañcāyat, literally “village council”).

How to pronounce gram panchayat

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