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Sansari

village in Rajasthan, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ7418975
Source-derived summary

Sansari is a village in Rajasthan, India. It is located on Phulad–Desuri road. It is panchayat headquarters for 4 villages (Ashapura a.k.a. Akar, Guda Gopinath, Guda Durjan and Sansari). Sansari is located around 65 km from the district headquarters Pali, and 27 km from Tehsil headquarters in Desuri.

It is the last village in Desuri Tehsil, after which Marwar Junction Tehsil starts.

Currently MNREGA office has been opened in Sansari, for the villages in Sansari Panchayat.

Demographics

As per Jodhpur State census 1931, total population was 282, (Males 141, Females 141) and total households of 64. Out of 282, 2 were Jains and rest were Hindus.

As per census of India 2011, total population is 981 ( Males - 468, Females - 513) and total households of 201.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sansari” is village in Rajasthan, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sansari, village and Rajasthan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1607. For this dossier, Sansari, village and Rajasthan is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Rajasthan, 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

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 Feb 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7418975. Authority coordinates are 25.481, 73.703. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1931 and 2011.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Sansari”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sansari primary sources, Sansari archive and Sansari 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 “Sansari”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Sansari” 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.