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Samadhiala Charan

erstwhile non-salutory Charan princely state in Gujarat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ11946829 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samadhiala Charan is a village and former non-salutory princely state on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, India. At present, the village lies in Jetpur taluka of Rajkot district.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Samadhiala Charan” as erstwhile non-salutory Charan princely state in Gujarat. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 27-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Samadhiala, Charan and erstwhile can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as erstwhile non-salutory Charan princely state in Gujarat. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11946829. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samadhiala Charan” 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.