Bari Sadri is a town and a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in Chittaurgarh district in the state of

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; Literal translation, lit. 'Land of Kings') is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the List of states and union territories of ...

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. It was a

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state ruled by

Rajput Rājpūt (, from Sanskrit ''rājaputra'' meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur (), is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating fro ...

s of Jhala clan till 1949.

History

During 15th century, the

kingdom of Mewar The Kingdom of Mewar was an independent Hindu kingdom that existed in the Rajputana region of the Indian subcontinent and later became a dominant state in medieval India. The kingdom was initially founded and ruled by the Guhila dynasty, foll ...

was divided into 16 Rajwadas, and Bari Sadri was one of those. It was given to Ajja Jhala (deposed king of dhrangadhra) by

Rana Raimal Rana Raimal Singh, also known as Rana Raimal, (r. 1473–1509) was a Hindu, Sisodia Rajput ruler of the Mewar, Kingdom of Mewar. Rana Raimal was the younger son of Kumbha of Mewar, Rana Kumbha and younger brother of his predecessor Udai Singh ...

in the 1500s. From then until 1949, Bari Sadri was a

state, ruled by Jhalas, with the title of "Raj Rana".

Geography

Bari Sadri is located at . It has an average elevation of .

Demographics

As of the 2011 India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Bari Sadri had a population of 15,713. Males constitute 51% of the population. Bari Sadri has an average literacy rate of 71% with 79% of males and 62% of females are literate. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Climate

The climate of Bari Sadri is generally warm and temperate. It is classified as Cwa (

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-influenced humid subtropical climate) by the Köppen-Geiger system. In Bari Sadri, the average annual temperature is 24.9 °C. The rainfall in Bari Sadri averages 817 mm annually.

References

Cities and towns in Chittorgarh district {{Udaipurdivision-geo-stub