page_title: Santhal Pargana division
section_title: Origin of name
hierarchical_section_title: Santhal Pargana division / Origin of name
caption_attribution_description: English: Scanned, cropped, enhanced, and resized from personal copy of 1907 Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford University Press, volume 25 (Atlas) by Fowler&amp;fowler«Talk» 21:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
context_page_description: Santhal Pargana division constitutes one of the five district administration units known as the divisions of Jharkhand state in eastern India.
context_section_description: Santhal Pargana derives its name from two words: "Santhal", a major tribe of India and Pargana, a unit of administration used mostly by Medieval rulers.
caption: The Santal Parganas in a 1907 map of the Bengal area
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