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Zalaki

village in Mysore State, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ17143992
Source-derived summary

Zalaki is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Chadachan Taluk of Vijayapur district, Karnataka.

Demographics

In the 2011 census, Zalaki reported a population of 2,686 inhabitants.

As of the 2011 India census, Zalaki is a large village located in Indi Taluk of Vijayapur district, Karnataka with total 489 families residing. The Zalaki village has population of 2686 of which 1370 are males while 1316 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Zalaki village population of children with age 0-6 is 402 which makes up 14.97 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Zalaki village is 961 which is lower than Karnataka state average of 973. Child Sex Ratio for the Zalaki as per census is 861, lower than Karnataka average of 948.

Zalaki village has lower literacy rate compared to Karnataka. In 2011, literacy rate of Zalaki village was 70.32 % compared to 75.36 % of Karnataka.

Editorial summary

“Zalaki” enters the record as village in Mysore State, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zalaki, village and Mysore can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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, 1370, 1316—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zalaki, village and Mysore.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Zalaki” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zalaki, village and Mysore provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q17143992. Authority coordinates are 17.257, 75.803. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1370 and 1316.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Zalaki”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zalaki primary sources, Zalaki archive and Zalaki 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 “Zalaki”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from Zalaki” 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.