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Maidan   Listen
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Maidan  n.  (Written also midan, meidan, mydan, etc)  In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade. "A gallop on the green maidan."






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"Maidan" Quotes from Famous Books



... I saw the fort that Clive built; and the place where Warren Hastings and the author of the Junius Letters fought their duel; and the great botanical gardens; and the fashionable afternoon turnout in the Maidan; and a grand review of the garrison in a great plain at sunrise; and a military tournament in which great bodies of native soldiery exhibited the perfection of their drill at all arms, a spectacular and beautiful show occupying several nights and closing ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Madras, they encamped on the Maidan—a large, open space used as a drill ground for the troops garrisoned there—and the Rajah and his party established themselves in the house occupied by him on the occasion of his last visit. The next day, the Rajah ...
— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty



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