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Khirauna

village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ3417175 ↗
Source-derived summary

Khirauna is a village development committee in Siraha District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. In 1991, it had a population of 2870 living in 496 individual households. Different casts of people live in the village, including Goit, Mandal, Thakur and Paswan. The main occupation of people in the village is agriculture.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Khirauna” is village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Khirauna, village and development, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Khirauna, village and development is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal” 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

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3417175. Authority coordinates are 26.630, 86.200. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Khirauna”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Khirauna primary sources, Khirauna archive and Khirauna 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 “Khirauna”?
  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 “Khirauna” 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.