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Naggar is the Locality page for the village of Naggar ("Nagar" in the 2011 census, 012740). Its settlement type is Village, as the census classes it. The Naggar community development block is described in the article, not given a page of its own.
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Elevation and distance
- No source gives an elevation for the village, so the infobox leaves it blank. SRTM gives 1,714 m at the OpenStreetMap node for Naggar (node 861687418) and 1,753 m at the castle. V. Shibayeff (1931) gives 6,000 feet for the institute's headquarters on the estate above the village.
- The census village directory gives Naggar 21 km from Kullu; the district's Places of Interest page says "27 kms". The article uses the census figure.
Shibayeff's "Chhaki River"
- Shibayeff (1931) puts the headquarters on a ridge whose northern slope descends to the "Chhaki River, a side-stream of the Beas". OpenStreetMap maps that stream as Chhaki Nal (way 168206601) just north-east of the village, and its upper course as Chakki Nal (way 103629835) towards the pass. The boundary drawn for Chanderkhani Valley (appellation) traces the same stream as the drainage of the Chanderkhani valley, with its outlet at the Beas north of Naggar. The article quotes Shibayeff and does not make the identification, which rests on the map.
Dates for the Roerich estate
- The district's Places of Interest page says Nicholas Roerich chose Naggar as his residence "when he came to India in 1929". The institute's own report gives its founding as 12 July 1928, and the International Roerich Memorial Trust gives the family's years on the estate as 1928–1947. The article uses the report and the trust and does not repeat the 1929 date.
- The same district page says the Hall house "is now in the possession of the Roerich family". The International Roerich Memorial Trust, founded in 1992–93, now runs the estate; the article attributes the district's wording.
Source discrepancies
- Generations at Jagatsukh: the district's history page says the early kings ruled there "for twelve generations"; the census handbook (p. 10) says "nearly ten generations". The article follows the history page, which it cites.
- Sidh Singh: the district's history page says he "became the Raja of Kullu in A.D. 1500"; the census handbook places him in "the fifteenth century". The article gives both.
- The Roerichs' years on the estate: the trust's history page gives 1928–1947; its page on the memorial house says the family left "in January 1948" after Nicholas Roerich's death, which the district's page dates to December 1947. The article gives 1928 to 1947.
Other reports
- R. H. Davies's 1862 trade report lists "Nagar" as a stage between "Sultanpore" and "Jagatsukh" on the route from Mandi to Rudok (used on Kullu District). The Punjab District Gazetteer of 1917–18 says C. G. Bruce "crossed over from Naggar to Malana".
- The journal plate "Headquarters of the Institute at Naggar, Kulu" (Journal of Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute, vol. 1, no. 1, July 1931, p. 89) is a candidate image. It was published in New York in 1931 with a copyright notice; its status needs confirming before any upload.
Accession tehsil
- The ten Chanderkhani valley accessions store
admin_3 = Naggar Tehsil. The district lists Naggar as a development block and a panchayat samiti, not as a tehsil, and the census puts Naggar, Rumsu, Pulag and Hallan-I in Kullu tehsil. This page's infobox stores Kullu Tehsil.
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File:Urusvati-headquarters-naggar-1931.jpg(Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute): the plate "Headquarters of the Institute at Naggar, Kulu" on p. 89 of the Journal of Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1931), in the Nicholas Roerich Museum PDF cited in the article. It was published in New York in 1931 with a copyright notice, so in the United States it stays in copyright until 31 December 2026 unless the copyright was never renewed. Its status and the wiki's licence template have to be confirmed before it is uploaded.