Tehsil

A tehsil or tahsil/tahasil (Urdu: تحصیل‎, Punjabi: ਤਹਿਸੀਲ, Hindi: तहसील, also known as taluka (or taluq/taluk) or mandal, is an administrative division of some countries of South Asia. Gradually under the British Raj these terms replaced the earlier terms pargana, pergunnah and thannah.