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Madaraha

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Madaraha is the name of a village that is situated at Meja (tehsil) in the district of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.

The village is at least 500 years old.

The village has three Tolas: Purana purva, Chain ka purva, and Nidhi ka purva.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 42-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Madaraha, Open-knowledge and entry is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Madaraha” 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.