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Patna

[ puht-nuh, pat, puht-nah ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Bihar, in NE India, on the Ganges.


Patna

/ ˈpætnə /

noun

  1. a city in NE India, capital of Bihar state, on the River Ganges: founded in the 5th century bc ; university (1917); centre of a rice-growing region. Pop: 1 376 950 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Patna is a place of great importance, from the trade in opium, by which many of the natives acquire large fortunes.

There was only one white regiment in the 400 miles between Barrackpore and Patna.

To the cession of its rather imposing fort was immediately ascribed the massacre of our countrymen at Patna, as already mentioned.

Mir Jafar was anxious to buy off the shahzada, who had already invested Patna.

Clive had left behind him no system of government, but merely the tradition that unlimited sums of money Massacre of Patna.

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