Katiyari.in is a curated public memory, not a university press. Every essay on this site should be readable by a search engine, an AI crawler, and a sceptical cousin. That requires saying where a sentence came from.
Classes of evidence
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Documented | Identifiable public record (Census of India, administrative village code, PIN). |
| Mixed | Genealogical literature plus census / regional history; community tradition is marked in the prose. |
| Oral | Living memory or local shrine practice not yet matched to a gazetteer. |
| Not yet verified | A claim that appeared in secondary research but is not independently confirmed here. |
What we used for the first edition
- Census of India 2011 village tables for Katiyari (code 191029): population, households, SC/ST, literacy, workers.
- Administrative directories: Barhaj tehsil, Bhagalpur block, Deoria district, PIN 274601, Gram Panchayat naming.
- Saryupareen vanshavali summaries circulating in genealogical literature: twelve Shri Mukh Shandilya mool villages, four gharanas from Sohgaura, Tiwari/Tripathi usage, Garg Mukh co-residence as a pattern.
- Regional colonial history: Indian migration to Burma / Rangoon; 1942 evacuation scholarship. These confirm the belt, not a named passenger list from Katiyari.
- Two 2026 research compilations prepared for this project (Gemini long-form synthesis; Grok source-critical memo). The first is rich and sometimes over-confident; the second correctly flags missing gazetteer hits for Mahai Baba and village-named Rangoon migrants. This site prefers the second’s caution when they disagree.
What we did not treat as fact
- A precise founding date or named first settler of Katiyari.
- A public biography of Mahai Baba.
- A roster of Katiyari men in Rangoon.
- 2024–2026 population or income figures.
- Exact lat/long until a Survey of India / revenue point is cited.
How to correct the record
Send a scan, photograph, or typed note via contribute. Preferred: census extracts, khatauni / khasra references, shrine photos with date, family vanshavali pages (with consent), oral interviews with speaker name and year. Corrections will be dated on this page as the archive grows.