Satha Chaurasi

Satha Chaurasi refers to an area in the west of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where the population consists in large part of members of the Rajput community. In falls within the boundaries of the Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar for electoral purposes.[1] Satha translates as group of sixty and chaurasi as group of eighty-four. These numbers may have had a significant socio-political context in the medieval period as a definition of scope for territorial and lineal boundaries.[2]

The region includes Ghaziabad, Hapur, Gautam Budh Nagar district, Bulandshahr, Dadri, Baghpat, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar.[3] There are 60 villages where members of the Sisodia Rajput clan dominate and 84 villages where the Tomar Rajputs dominate.[4][5]

References
  1. Sharma, Kritika (7 April 2014). "Ghaziabad to see exciting 5-cornered contest". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  2. Majumder, Bhaskar, ed. (2011). Rethinking Villages. Concept Publishing Company. p. 43. ISBN 978-8-18069-764-7.
  3. http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/-/articleshow/11643261.cms
  4. http://www.amarujala.com/feature/samachar/national/muzaffarnagar-riots-hindu-muslims/
  5. http://www.amarujala.com/news/states/uttar-prsadesh/hapur/Hapur-35259-112/


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