Rawatsar is a city, a municipality

Municipality

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, and one of the eight tehsil

Tehsil

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s in Hanumangarh district

Hanumangarh district

Hanumangarh District is a district of Rajasthan state of western India. The town of Hanumangarh is the district headquarters.-District profile:...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

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.

Geography

Rawatsar is located at 29.28°N 74.38°E. It has an average elevation of 176 metres (577 feet).

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Rawatsar had a population of 28,383. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Rawatsar has an average literacy rate of 55%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 65%, and female literacy is 44%. In Rawatsar, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Language

Bagri

Bagri language

Bagri is a dialect of Rajasthani language of the Indo-Aryan family. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar districts of Rajasthan, Sirsa and Hissar districts of Haryana, Firozepur and Muktsar districts of Punjab of India and Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar areas...

, a dialect of Rajasthani language

Rajasthani language

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, is spoken by majority of population. Besides, Punjabi, English,Hindi, and Urdu are also in use in this tehsil. The linguistic survey of Bagri was carried our by a team of scholars of Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University

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, New Delhi in 1993 and it was a major development for linguistic work on Bagri. A lot of research work (given in references) is done on Bagri in recent times.
Now, Bagri has a reference grammar, dictionary, primers, and other reference material. The prominent poet on Bagri was Chander Singh "Birkali" who wrote "Loon" ,"Badli" and "Damfar" poems in the early-twentieth century.

Education

There are many schools—public and private—up to senior secondary grades. For higher education, two women's colleges and one boys ITI college and one one co-educational college also.and one boy's collage and three B.Ed college also.

Prominent persons

• Tara Sharma
  Tara Sharma
  Tara Sharma is an Indian actress. She is half British and half Indian.-Personal life:Sharma is the daughter of the well-known author and actor, Partap Sharma, and Susan Sharma, and is an alumna of the London School of Economics and of the United World College of the Adriatic. She is married to ad...
  
   (born 1945 at village Daniyasar) is an Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry, Mumbai (Bombay).
  • Dr. Hari Prasad Somani  is the RPS From Rawatsar
    • Jitendra Kumar Soni is the IAS from Rawatsar.