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Badaharwa village

village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ25247517 ↗
Source-derived summary

Badaharwa (also: Badharwa)(Nepali: बडहर्वा) is a small village situated in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal.

Geography

The village is separated by the Bagmati River in two parts:east side and west side. The majority of the portion of village being in

eastern side based on population and western side based on area. Although Rautahat District is separated from the Sarlahi District by Bagmati River in most of its parts, the exceptions are Badaharwa, Dharampur and Sedhwa village. Basically it faces Sarlahi District in east, Matsari village in north, Saruatha and Jhunkhunma village in west and Basatpur village in south.

Demographics

According to normal population and housing census 2011, the total population of this village is 4949. Male population is 2616 and female population is 2333. The total number of households is 802.

Economy

The major occupation of people in this village is farming, government services, constructional works, factory works either in indian cities like Ludhiana, Mumbai, Delhi, et cetera or in Arab countries like UAE, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, et cetera. Occasionally, people also go to punjab to work in fields.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Badaharwa village” is village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Badaharwa, village and development, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Badaharwa, village and development is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village development committee in Narayani Zone, Nepal” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Feb 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25247517. Authority coordinates are 26.810, 85.320. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Badaharwa village”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Badaharwa village primary sources, Badaharwa village archive and Badaharwa 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 “Badaharwa village”?
  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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Badaharwa village” 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.