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Kapaam

village in Manipur, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ18386961
Source-derived summary

Kapaam, also known as Komlathabi, is a village in Chandel District, Manipur, India. The village is 49 km from Imphal and 15 km from Chandel District Headquarters.

Komlathabi Population - Chandel, Manipur Komlathabi is a medium size village located in Chandel Sub Division of Chandel district, Manipur with total 198 families residing. The Komlathabi village has population of 945 of which 433 are males while 512 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Komlathabi village, population of children with age 0-6 is 94 which makes up 9.95% of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Komlathabi village is 1182 which is higher than Manipur state average of 985. Child Sex Ratio for the Komlathabi as per census is 741, lower than Manipur average of 930.

Komlathabi village has higher literacy rate compared to Manipur. In 2011, literacy rate of Komlathabi village was 94.36% compared to 76.94% of Manipur. In Komlathabi Male literacy stands at 96.83% while female literacy rate was 92.37%.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1182—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kapaam, village and Manipur is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Manipur, 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

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 May 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18386961. Authority coordinates are 24.417, 94.010. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1182.

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 “Kapaam”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kapaam primary sources, Kapaam archive and Kapaam 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 “Kapaam”?
  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 Kapaam” 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.