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Samaspur Majra

village in Haryana, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ85638350 ↗
Source-derived summary

Samaspur Majra is a large village located in Jhajjar district in the Indian state of Haryana.

Demographics

In 2011, The Kasni village has population of 2370 of which 1301 are males while 1069 are females.

Religion

Majority of the residents are Hindu and belongs to Jaat community of Dhankhar gotra.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Samaspur Majra” is village in Haryana, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Samaspur, Majra and village, 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—2011, 1301, 1069—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Samaspur, Majra and village is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Haryana, India” 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

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 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85638350. Authority coordinates are 28.504, 76.599. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1301 and 1069.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Samaspur Majra”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Samaspur Majra primary sources, Samaspur Majra archive and Samaspur 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 “Samaspur Majra”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Samaspur Majra” 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.