Shop is also known as soap and sop, a village located in

Uniara Uniara is a town and a municipality in Tonk district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is a tehsil of the Tonk district. Geography Galwa dam, the eighth largest dam in Rajasthan, is three kilometers from Uniara. Uniara has major forest area ...

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of Tonk, a district of the state of

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in Western

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Geography

Shop is located at 25.892296°N 76.210446°E, and covers a total area of 2262.89 km². Shop is situated to the north of Uniyara

and five kilometers west of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. There are five

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centers, two banks - Gramin Bank and Indian Iverseas Bank, and a sub tehsil office. There is a hostipal.

Historical Places

Shop has a palatial

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made of curved stairs and huge rocks. Talghar Lal Chowk and Lal Bazaar Bhawan Kund are built inside this stepwell. This stepwell is famous as the stepwell of Singhasha Baba. SAVE_20210414_173625_Shop_Town

Demographics

The total population of Shop is 5,482 with 3,835 voters. Kiskanda Bai won the sarpanch post in the

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elections for 2020. There are two dhanis here: Manoharpura Malian and Khanjar Dhani. The town still employs the

caste system Caste is a form of social stratification characterised by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultura ...

. Some of the major castes at Shop include Dhakad,

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 ...

Gurjar Gurjar or Gujjar (also transliterated as ''Gujar, Gurjara and Gujjer'') is an ethnic nomadic, agricultural and pastoral community, spread mainly in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, divided internally into various clan groups. They were tra ...

, and

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

Economy

Shop's economy is agrarian. Some crops produced include

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and

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, which are grown as

Rabi crops Rabi crops or rabi harvest, also known as winter crops, are agricultural crops that are sown in winter and harvested in the spring in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The complimentary of the rabi crop is the kharif crop, which is grown after t ...

;

Urad Urad may refer to: * Urad Mongols, a tribe in Inner Mongolia * Urad, a region in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia ** Urad Front Banner ** Urad Middle Banner ** Urad Rear Banner * Urad (bean) ''Vigna mungo'', also known as black gram, urad bean, urid be ...

moong The mung bean (''Vigna radiata''), alternatively known as the green gram, maash ( fa, ماش٫ )٫ mūng (), monggo, or munggo (Philippines), is a plant species in the legume family.Brief Introduction of Mung Bean. Vigna Radiata Extract G ...

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

and

millet Millets () are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Most species generally referred to as millets belong to the tribe Paniceae, but some millets al ...

, which are grown as Kharif crops. The village also has a pond (''Amalia''), where Singahara is cultivated.

References

External links

Census of India 2001
Villages in Tonk district {{Rajasthan-geo-stub