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Chotian, Mansa

village in Mansa district

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ25624439 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chotian (sometimes spelled as Chotia) is a village in the Sardulgarh tehsil of Mansa district in Punjab, India. Jhunir is the surrounding village.

Geography

Chotian is located 36 km towards South from District headquarters Mansa,

11 km from Sardulewala and 209 km from State capital Chandigarh. Chotian's Pin code is 151506 and postal office is Adamke. Alike (3 km), Mirpur Kalan (3 km), Ranjitgarh Bandran (5 km), Lohgarh (5 km) and Jhanduke (5 km) are the nearby Villages. it is surrounded by Jhunir tehsil towards North, Ratia tehsil towards East, Fatehabad tehsil towards South, Mansa tehsil towards North.

Ratia, Fatehabad, Mansa, Budhlada and Sardulgarh are the nearby Cities to Chotian.

This Place is in the border of the Mansa district and Fatehabad District.

Demographics

At the 2001 census, Chotian had a total population of 1,172 and at the 2011 census, Chotian had a total population of 1,263 with 2,43 households, 672 males and 591 females.

Religion

The population mostly follows the Sikhism with Hinduism.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chotian, Mansa and village 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 Mansa district. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25624439. Authority coordinates are 29.720, 75.337. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2011.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Chotian, Mansa”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Chotian, Mansa primary sources, Chotian, Mansa archive and Chotian 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 “Chotian, Mansa”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Chotian, Mansa” 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.