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Jagalur

human settlement in Davanagere district, Bangalore division, Karnataka, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ2010464 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jagaluru is a panchayat town in Davanagere district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Geography

Jagaluru is located at 14.53°N 76.35°E / 14.53; 76.35. It has an average elevation of 668 metres (2191 feet).

Editorial summary

“Jagalur” enters the record as human settlement in Davanagere district, Bangalore division, Karnataka, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jagalur, human and settlement can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 34-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jagalur, human and settlement.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jagalur” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jagalur, human and settlement 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 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2010464. VIAF identifies the subject as 277500910. The Library of Congress control number is no2012135725. Authority coordinates are 14.530, 76.350. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

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