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Babupur

village in Haryana, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4838095
Source-derived summary

Babupur is a village in Gurgaon Mandal, near sun in Haryana. Babupur is 12 km from its district main city Gurgaon near Palam Vihar and 252 km from its state main city Chandigarh. It has a population of about 953 persons living in around 185 households.Yadavs are the Dominant Landowning community in this village.

Geography

It belongs to the Gurgaon division. It is located 8 km to the north of district headquarters Gurgaon, 12 km from Gurgaon, and 289 km from state capital Chandigarh.

Sector 106 (1 km), Sector 109 (1 km), Sector 108 (1 km), Daulatabad (1 km), and Vishnu Garden (2 km) are the nearby villages to Babupur. Babupur is surrounded by South West Delhi Tehsil to the east, West Delhi Tehsil to the north, Farrukh Nagar Tehsil to the west, and Bahadurgarh Tehsil to the north.

Gurgaon, Bahadurgarh, Delhi, Sohna are the nearby cities to Babupur.

This place is in the border of the Gurgaon District and South West Delhi district. South West Delhi District South West Delhi is east towards this place.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Babupur” as village in Haryana, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 176-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Babupur, village and Haryana can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Haryana, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4838095. Authority coordinates are 28.509, 76.996. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Babupur”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Babupur primary sources, Babupur archive and Babupur research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Babupur”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from Babupur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.