Gagarwas
village in Rajasthan, India
Gagarwas is a small village in Rajgarh (Sadulpur) tehsil of Churu district in Rajasthan, India, it is situated approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from Sadulpur.
Description
The village contains approximately 300 houses. Gagarwas has been able to gain popularity to a certain extent in its surrounding areas for a comparatively large number of national level sports persons, military personnel and government servants. The village is surrounded by other smaller villages such as Suratpura, Ragha Badi, Ragha Chhoti, Bislan and Sadau.
The village was visited by Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev Ji on 19 May 2012 to unveil the statue of Shaheed deputy Commandant Vijaypal Singh who became a shaheed on 20 May 2010, while fighting against the Naxals in the Lalgarh area of the West Bengal. Over 15,000 people had gathered on this occasion.
Notable people
Krishna Poonia, a gold medallist in the discus at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Sapna Punia, a 20 km race walker who participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Rajasthan, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
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 Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5516819. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2010 and 2016.
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