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Keshar Kumari Devi

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ104253358 ↗
Source-derived summary

Keshar Kumari Devi is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Raipur as member of the Indian National Congress.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Keshar Kumari Devi” as indian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Keshar, Kumari and Devi.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 30-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Keshar, Kumari and Devi providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104253358. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keshar Kumari Devi” 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.