Methodology · The Members of the Lok Sabha from Rajasthan

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WHAT THIS IS. Every member the Lok Sabha's own register records against Rajasthan, complete as against that register rather than a selection from it. ORDER. The register's own alphabetical order — surname first, as the Secretariat sorts it. It is not a ranking, and nothing on this page is ranked. The list ordered by terms served is a separate page and says what it measures. WHAT A ROW CARRIES. The seat and the party the register records against that member, the Lok Sabhas they sat in, and the number of terms. The register carries ONE seat and ONE party per member — those of their most recent term — so a member who changed seats is recorded under the later one and this page cannot say which seat they held in which term. WHY THERE IS NO LIST PER LOK SABHA. The register says which Lok Sabhas a member sat in and, separately, that it files them under Rajasthan. It does not say which state they sat for in each one, and the two are not the same: Buta Singh, on this page, sat in eight Lok Sabhas, four of them for Punjab. Building a delegation for each House out of those two fields would put him in Rajasthan's benches for four Houses he represented another state in. The current delegation is published — the register flags its own sitting members — and the historic ones wait for the Election Commission's constituency-wise results rather than being reconstructed here. WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT HERE. No address, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth or family detail, all of which the register publishes and none of which belongs on a page about a living person. No gender column, no caste column, and no characterisation of anybody. WHAT THIS LIST DOES NOT SAY. It does not say that anybody on it is Marwari. This site never assigns ethnicity to anyone; it records what a published source has said, with a link, and the register cited here says nothing on the subject. These are the people Rajasthan sent to Parliament, which is a fact about the state, not about a community. SOURCE AND ITS STANDARD. The Lok Sabha's own member register, published by the Lok Sabha Secretariat at sansad.in — the state's own record of its own membership. Every claim on this page rests on it and on nothing else. That register is a tier-A source, so these pages meet this site's STRICT sourcing standard — the "record" standard of the original charter, under which only a filing, a disclosure, the state's own record or named-byline journalism may back a published claim. The site's current standard is looser than that and would have accepted an encyclopaedia; this dataset does not use the latitude, and no claim here is marked "aggregated source". Pages about named, mostly living people are the wrong place to spend a relaxation. Each member's citation quotes their row in the register, transcribed under the register's own column headings, so every value on this page can be found again in the document at the cited URL. No citation carries an archive snapshot: the seeder's citation type has no field for one, which is a gap in the tooling rather than a judgement about this source.

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