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Ramdurg taluk

taluk in Karnataka's Belgaum district

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ19812644 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ramdurg is a taluka in Belagavi district, Karnataka state, India. As of the 2011 Census of India, it had a population of 223,727 across 115 villages. The population comprised 113,560 males and 110,167 females.

Villages

As of 2011, the following villages were assigned to Ramdurg taluka.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ramdurg taluk” as taluk in Karnataka's Belgaum district. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ramdurg, taluk and Karnataka's.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ramdurg, taluk and Karnataka's providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ramdurg taluk”, the useful work is to connect “taluk in Karnataka's Belgaum district” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q19812644. Authority coordinates are 16.005, 75.276. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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
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 “Ramdurg taluk”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ramdurg taluk primary sources, Ramdurg taluk archive and Ramdurg 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 “Ramdurg taluk”?
  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 “Ramdurg taluk” 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.