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Kottapalli, Srikakulam district

village in Mandasa mandal, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, 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 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ15693468 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kottapalli is a village in Srikakulam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Mandasa mandal, and the Mahendratanaya River flows besides the village.

Demographics

Kottapalli village has population of 954 of which 468 are males while 486 are females as per Population 2011, Indian Census.

Editorial summary

“Kottapalli, Srikakulam district” enters the record as village in Mandasa mandal, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kottapalli, Srikakulam and district 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kottapalli, Srikakulam and district.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kottapalli, Srikakulam district” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kottapalli, Srikakulam and district 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 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15693468. Authority coordinates are 18.879, 84.526. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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 “Kottapalli, Srikakulam district”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kottapalli, Srikakulam district primary sources, Kottapalli, Srikakulam district archive and Kottapalli 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 “Kottapalli, Srikakulam district”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kottapalli, Srikakulam district” 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.