MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bidhan mean?
Bidhan is the Bengali form of Sanskrit vidhana, a word for arrangement, rule, or ordinance. Bengali retains the word in expressions for legislation and an assembly that makes laws.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
বিধান
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बिधान
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bidhan in Indian usage
3,303 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 592 |
| 1970s | 933 |
| 1980s | 881 |
| 1990s | 600 |
| Other decades | 297 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 1,630 |
| Assam | 1,223 |
| Jharkhand | 223 |
| Other states | 227 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, vidhāna, p. 967,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.