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Pahrianwali

town in the Punjab province of Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ15265058
Source-derived summary

Pahrianwali is a town in Mandi Bahauddin District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 32°28'60N 73°46'0E at an altitude of 215 metres (708 feet). The village is part of Phalia tehsil. The town has served as a central market for surrounding villages and has its own union council, post office, playground, bazaar, rural health centre, veterinary hospital, government operated boys and girls schools and colleges.

Editorial summary

“Pahrianwali” enters the record as town in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pahrianwali, town and Punjab 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 69-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Pahrianwali, town and Punjab.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Pahrianwali” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pahrianwali, town and Punjab provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15265058. Authority coordinates are 32.483, 73.767. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Pahrianwali”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pahrianwali primary sources, Pahrianwali archive and Pahrianwali 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 “Pahrianwali”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from Pahrianwali” 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.