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Pharsatikar

village development committee in Lumbini Zone, Nepal

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ7180869
Source-derived summary

Pharsatikar (named Suddodhan in 2018) is a Rural municipality in Rupandehi District, Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 9,663 people living in 1992 individual households. Before some years, people here used to be mostly Tharus but due to, the huge agricultural possibility and a very good environment that it serves to the people staying here, its population has found to be increased with mostly people shifted here from Myanmar in late 80's along with Paharis migrating from the neighbouring districts.

Education

Pharsatikar is an educational hub of nearby areas. Educational quality is gradually increasing in recent years. Some education institutions are

Tillottama English Secondary School

Dream Vision School

Little Flower English Boarding School

Siddhartha English Secondary School

Pharsatikar Secondary School

Transport

Bicycles and Motorbikes are the common means of transport in Pharsatikar. E-Ricksaw are available for short-distance travel while Buses and vans are available for Butwal in every 20 minutes. One Bus departs for Kathmandu via Pharsatikar in daily basis.

Economy

Main market remains closed every Friday. There are two fairs held every week, one on Tuesday and other on Saturday.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pharsatikar” is village development committee in Lumbini Zone, Nepal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pharsatikar, 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—2018, 2011, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pharsatikar, village and development is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village development committee in Lumbini 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

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7180869. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2011 and 1992.

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 “Pharsatikar”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pharsatikar primary sources, Pharsatikar archive and Pharsatikar 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 “Pharsatikar”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Pharsatikar” 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.