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Bandahalli

Village in Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4854324
Source-derived summary

Bandahalli is a village in Nallampalli Taluk, Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu, India. Bandahalli is 18.5 km from the Taluk's main town, Nallampalli, 23.2 km from the district's administrative headquarters, Dharmapuri, and 272 km (169 mi) from the state capital, Chennai.

Schools near Bandahalli

The Government Higher Secondary School, Bandahalli, is the only school located in Bandahalli.

The Government Elementary School, Bandahalli.

Jayam Narsri Primary School, Pangunatham.

Colleges near Bandahalli

Jayalakshmi Institute of Technology. Address : Dharmapuri—636 352.

Marutam Nelli Polytechnic College. Address : Dalavahalli, Nallampalli, Dharmapuri—636 803.

Christ College of Education for Women.

Editorial summary

“Bandahalli” enters the record as village in Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bandahalli, Village and Dharmapuri can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 93-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bandahalli, Village and Dharmapuri.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bandahalli” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bandahalli, Village and Dharmapuri provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4854324. Authority coordinates are 12.084, 77.953. 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 “Bandahalli”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bandahalli primary sources, Bandahalli archive and Bandahalli 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 “Bandahalli”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Bandahalli” 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.