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Derveshpur

village in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ108122910
Source-derived summary

Derveshpur is a village located in Shikarpur Tehsil of Bulandshahr district in the Indian state Uttar Pradesh. Its postal PIN code is 203395.The village name is commonly written in Hindi as “दरवेशपुर”

History

Derveshpur was founded by a person known by the title 'Dervesh'. Thereafter,the Nauhwar dynasty laid the foundation of Derveshpur.

Demographics

The village is inhabited by various communities,including Brahmin, Jat, Dagar, Nauhwar, Roria, Lochav (Panwar), Dhimar (Kashyap),Khatik, Jatav, Balmiki and Muslim communities.

Religious Places

Shiv Mandir :Jat Chowk Near Chaupal, was a place where Jat Community members would sit together, share thoughts, and strengthen bonds

Maa Durga Mandir

Chamad Mata Than and Pathwari Mata Than

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Goshala: established in 2018, is devoted to the protection and care of cows.

Sri Radhe Krishn Mandir, A temple dedicated to Sri Radhe and Lord Sri Krishna.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Derveshpur” is village in Uttar Pradesh, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Derveshpur, village and Uttar, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Derveshpur, village and Uttar is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Uttar Pradesh, India” 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

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108122910. Authority coordinates are 28.310, 78.079. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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 “Derveshpur”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Derveshpur primary sources, Derveshpur archive and Derveshpur 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 “Derveshpur”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Derveshpur” 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.