Manewra (Maneora) is a small village in
Phalodi tehsil
Phalodi tehsil is a tehsil in Jodhpur District of Rajasthan state in western India. Headquarters for the tehsil is the town of Phalodi.
Geography
Phalodi tehsil is the second northernmost of the eleven tehsils in Jodhpur District. It borders ...
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Jodhpur district
Jodhpur District is a district in the State of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Jodhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.
As of the 2011 census, it is the second highest populated district of Rajasthan (out of 33), af ...
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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.
[2001 Census Village code for Maneora = 01924300, ] Its population is one thousand.
Most of the people in the village are
Bishnoi, subcaste Bhanwal, but in ten houses there are
Meghwal
The Meghwal (also known as Megh and Meghraj) people live primarily in northwest India, with a small population in Pakistan. Their traditional occupation was agricultural farming, cattle-herding and weaving. Meghwals are known for their contr ...
, and in one
Lohar.
Manewra is situated near
Champasar (4 km.),
Ajasar (5 km.), Kharia (4 km0, choutin/laxmannagar (11 km.) and
Chadi Shadi, also spelt Chadi or Shady, in Arabic means seeker of knowledge.
Shadi (Persian: شادی) is a Persian female given name. The name translates to "happiness" or "joy" in English.
Given name
* Shadi Abdalla
* Shadi Amin
* Shadi A. Karam
* Sha ...
15 km . Its postal pin code is 342312.
In this village two hundred person are in government service. Most are in the
Indian army
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...
and some are teachers. Other are farmers, but
agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...
depends on the weather, as there are no facilities for irrigation water, so villagers depend on the rainy season.
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Villages in Jodhpur district