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Sunder Lal Dixit

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ28823502 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sunder Lal Dixit (1942/1943 – 14 January 2023) was an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Dixit was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Haidergarh constituency in Barabanki district.

Dixit died on 14 January 2023, at the age of 80.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sunder Lal Dixit” is indian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sunder, Dixit and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1943, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942. For this dossier, Sunder, Dixit and Indian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “indian politician” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28823502. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1943 and 2023.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sunder Lal Dixit” 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.