| Dalits will try to get plum posts, inspectors in every thana, kotwal in city and commissioner in the commissionorate. |
| Accompanied by some other young men from the village, he made rounds of the police thana and military base to get a release order. |
| The thana, or police division, only exists for police purposes. |
| Wherefore we were sent to that thana which was eight miles from the next thana. |
| These districts were parceled further into smaller units, called thana. |
| Villages the smallest unit of government numbered in the tens of thousands and were grouped into unions beneath the thana. |
