Methodology · Rajasthan in the Rajya Sabha, the 2000s

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This method is shared by the 8 lists in the Rajasthan in the Rajya Sabha series. See the series.

WHAT THESE ARE. Rajasthan's Rajya Sabha members grouped by the decade in which the term the register records for them began. WHY BY DECADE AND NOT BY HOUSE. The Rajya Sabha is a permanent body: it is never dissolved, a third of it retires every two years, and there is no "17th Rajya Sabha" to group by. Ten seats on ten separate six-year cycles do not fall into terms the way a Lok Sabha does. The decade is the coarsest honest grouping — it is derived from the register's own term span and adds nothing to it. MEMBERS, NOT TERMS. The register returns one term span per member. A member who served three Rajasthan terms appears in one decade, not three, and their total number of Rajya Sabha terms is shown against them. ORDER. Chronological by the start of the recorded term, then alphabetically within a year. Not a ranking. WHY SOME CUTS HAVE NO PAGE. A list of one entry is not a list. Any cut with fewer than 2 members has no page of its own; its members appear on the full register list and on the other cuts they belong to. 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 Rajya Sabha's own member register, published by the Rajya 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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