Katkad is a village in

Hindaun Block Hindaun is a Community development block in India, Block in Karauli List of districts of Rajasthan, district of the Indian States and territories of India, state of Rajasthan in Northern India. It is a subdivisional headquarter. Its populatio ...

Karauli district Karauli District is a district of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Karauli is the district headquarters. Karauli District comes under Bharatpur division, Bharatpur Divisional Commissionerate. Karauli is famous for popular red-stone. Th ...

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

India in the vicinity of the

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. Its population is approximately 10,000. It covers an area of . Temperatures range from 25 to 45 degrees Celsius in summer and between 5 and 23 degrees Celsius in winter. It has an average elevation of and is around 163 km from the state capital, Jaipur. The village is dominated by the jagarwad

Meena Meena () is a sub-group of Bhils. They speak Meena language. They started adopting the Brahmin worship system. Its name is also transliterated as ''Meenanda'' or ''Mina''. Historians claim that they belong to the Matsya tribe. They got the sta ...

caste and considered to be as old as 1200 years. The village also has a small river named Gambhir, a seasonal river that has water only during rainy seasons. Aravalli

And In this village One of famous Temple Trust Shri Balaji Maharaj Katkad Nya Dham katkad(Ghatiyan ka pura)

History

The village has a rich and long history. Earlier, it was dominated by

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people, but in the 15th century

s occupied this village with little intervention of the Mughal ruler. The village was earlier located very near to the Gambhir River, but after staying 1000 years at the same place, they moved slightly away from old place as according to local tradition. Earlier, village was known by as Ratanzila due to its rich agriculture products. Up until the 18th century, when it was banned by the

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was cultivated in village. The is often called Katkad Medi . Medi is the twin village across the bank of the river

Temples and fairs

Being an old village, it has many temples, such as Hanuman ji ka mandir, Dev baba ka mandir, and Naseer Baba ka Mandir Raghunath (thakur baba) ka Mandir. many peoples gathering take place at various occasions like janmashtmi celebration, kushti dangal at naseer baba ka mandir any many others.

People

Although village is mainly dominated by Jagarwad meenas but all the castes are there and they have fraternity for each other.

Education

The village has several educational institutions including Govt. Senior secondary school(Ratanzila), Baba ramphool secondary school, smarts kids english medium school etc.

References

Villages in Karauli district {{Rajasthan-geo-stub