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

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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 hospital.

Historical Places

Shop has a palatial stepwell 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 Gram panchayat elections for 2020. There are two dhanis here: Manoharpura Malian and Khanjar Dhani. The town still employs the

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. Some of the major castes at Shop include Dhakad,

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, Gurjar, and

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Economy

Shop's economy is agrarian. Some crops produced include

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and mustard, which are grown as Rabi crops; Urad,

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and

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, 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 {{Ajmerdivision-geo-stub