Allahabad
Americannoun
noun
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Earlier this year, a group of Allahabad High Court lawyers petitioned for more judicial appointments, calling the court "paralysed" by a shortage of judges that leaves cases lingering for years.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
Prominent among such efforts is the government’s renaming of the northern city of Allahabad — named by Muslim Mughal rulers centuries ago — to the Sanskrit word “Prayagraj.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
The case files lay forgotten in Mainpuri until 2001 when it was moved to the Firozabad court on orders from the Allahabad high court.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023
In 2018 his party changed the name of the city long known as Allahabad to Prayagraj, the name of a Hindu pilgrimage site.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
We left Allahabad at midnight, and by noon of the next day were at Agra, in the heart of the old Mogul Empire.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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