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Girivan

hill Station

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5564308 ↗
Source-derived summary

Girivan is a private hill station in Hotale village near Kolvan of Mulshi taluka of Pune Maharashtra. It is approximately at 2400 feet above sea level and 400 feet above the Lonavala hill station, making the climate is cool and refreshing. There are many private resorts. Accommodation facilities are available. One can also go trekking. Best time to visit is during Rainy or Winter season. Native plants and trees, many of them having medicinal value, are retained.

Going to Girivan

Deccan Gymkhana Pune - 40 km.

Mumbai-via Dadar-Kamshet-Girivan - 131 km.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Girivan” as hill Station. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 91-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Girivan, hill and Station can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as hill Station. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5564308.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Girivan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Girivan primary sources, Girivan archive and Girivan 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 “Girivan”?
  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 “Girivan” 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.