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Gill Patti

village in Punjab, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5561897
Source-derived summary

Gill Patti is a village in the tehsil and district Bathinda of Punjab, India. It is located on the Bathinda-Kotkapura road between Goniana and Bathinda.Sarpanch of village is Akbar Singh

Geography

Gill Patti is located at 30°16′34″N 74°56′24″E only 6 km from Goniana, 7 km from Bathinda and 225 km (approximately) from the state capital of Chandigarh. The total area of the village is 883 hectares. Bhokhra (3 km), Joga Nand (4 km), Nehian Wala (5 km) and Sivian (5 km) are the surrounding villages.

Demographics

In 2001, according to the census, the village had a total population of 2,957 with 529 households, 1,618 males and 1,339 females and thus has a sex ratio of 828 females per thousand males.

Punjabi is the mother tongue as well as official language of the village.

Editorial summary

“Gill Patti” enters the record as village in Punjab, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gill, Patti and village 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gill, Patti and village.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5561897. Authority coordinates are 30.276, 74.940. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Gill Patti”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gill Patti primary sources, Gill Patti archive and Gill 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 “Gill Patti”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Gill Patti” 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.