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Sotwara

village in Rajasthan, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7564039
Source-derived summary

Sotwara is a village situated in the Jhunjhunu district, state of Rajasthan, Western India. It is 21 km away from Jhunjhunu and almost 14 km from Nawalgarh, and also 4 km away from Sikar-Loharu State Highway-8, which is one of the best transportation way between Sikar-Jhunjhunu-Loharu.

It has nearly 2500 houses and has its own Gram Panchayat (Local Self Governing Body) which has Nawalgarh, Rajasthan as its Tehsil.

Language

Basically Rajasthani Marwari is more popular here but Hindi also has the same respect.

Near By Villages

Dumra ( 3 km ), Mandasi ( 3 km ), Jejusar ( 5 km ), Kairu ( 5 km ), Kumawas ( 7 km ) are the nearby Villages to Sotwara.

deogaon 5 km

Education

This village has around 3 primary schools for kids and a Government Senior Secondary school for high schooling which has Science and Arts streams for high education. And, there are also two private institutions for the same. Many students from outside of the village come here to get better education.

Pin Code

Pin code for this village is 333707 .

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sotwara” is village in Rajasthan, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sotwara, 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 181-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sotwara, 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

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 Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7564039. Authority coordinates are 26.900, 75.800. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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