Cut short year's entry for a bit of old India (4)
I believe the answer is:
anna
'bit of old india' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both quantities as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'cut short year's entry for a' is the wordplay.
'cut short year's entry' becomes 'ann' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'ann'+'a'='ANNA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for anna that I've seen before include "- - and the King of 22" , "Old Indian coin - girl's name" , "- - Kournikova (tennis)" , "The name's the same,either way" , "worth very little in India" .)