Bagrian

English

Proper noun

Bagrian

1. A village in Sangrur District, in Punjab, India.
   • 1884, Thomas Gordon Walker, Final report on the revision of settlement, 1878-83, of the Ludhiána district in the Panjáb‎^[1], page 61:

     There are two or three famous Langars or almshouses, well known throughout the country. That of Bagrián lies 40 miles south of Ludhiána.

   • 1987, William Hewat MacLeod, Karine Schomer, The Sants: studies in a devotional tradition of India, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 261:

     Bagrian is in Ludhiana District [not true in 2006], seven and one half miles north-west of Nabha [correct].

   • 1996, Joseph Davey Cunningham, H.L.O. Garrett, History of the Sikhs from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej, Asian Educational Services, →ISBN, page 62:

     Dharam Singh, the ancestor of the respectable Bhais of Bagrian, a place between the Sutlej and Jumna, was likewise a follower of Har Rai.

Anagrams

• bargain, braaing