kharwar

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In Afghanistan , 20^th century, a unit of mass. According to the Statesman's Yearbook 1993-94, the kharwar = 16 maunds of 80 pounds each = 1,280 pounds av., or approximately 580.6 kilograms. The survey by the United Nations Statistical Division¹, however, finds it to be approximately 565.28 kilograms, which agrees with the Economist's 1962 figure of 1246.2 pounds (565.27 kg).

1. United Nations, 1966.

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In India, 19^th century, a unit of mass.

Kharwar, H[indi]. (P[ersian].) A measure, said to be about 700 lb., lit. an ass load : in Sindh it is called 850 lb.

H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 281.