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{{Short description|Village in Gujarat, India}}
{{Orphan|date=October 2024}}

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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Ghantoli
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| settlement_type = Village
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Gujarat]]
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Chhota Udaipur district|Chhota Udaipur]]
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| subdivision_name3 = [[Sankheda]]
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| area_total_km2 = 3.477
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'''Ghantoli''' is a small agricultural village in [[Sankheda]] taluka of [[Chhota Udaipur district]], [[Gujarat]]. It dates back to at least 1045, when it is mentioned in a [[Indian copper plate inscriptions|copper plate inscription]] recording a land grant made to the local temple to the god Ghaṇṭeśvara (i.e. [[Shiva]]). The temple still exists in ruins. There is also a train station in the village. As of 2011, Ghantoli has a population of 408, in 82 households. Most of the locals are employed in agriculture.

== History ==
Ghantoli is identified<ref name="Kudalkar 1919">{{cite book |last1=Kudalkar |first1=J. S. |title=The Library Miscellany, Vol. VI, Nos. 3 & 4 |date=1919 |pages=45–51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EL0zwJCkz_0C&q=ghantoli |access-date=29 October 2024 |chapter=Tilakwada Copper-Plate Inscription of the Time of King Bhoja}}</ref>{{rp|48}} with the village of ''Ghaṇṭāpallī'' mentioned in a [[Indian copper plate inscriptions|copper-plate grant]] made on 11 November 1045, by Jasorāja, a feudatory of the [[Paramara dynasty|Paramara]] king [[Bhoja]] who ruled Sankheda.<ref name="Diskalkar 1931">{{cite book |last1=Diskalkar |first1=D. B. |editor1-last=Sastri |editor1-first=Hirananda |editor1-link=Hiranand Sastri |editor2-last=Dikshit |editor2-first=K. N. |editor2-link=Kashinath Narayan Dikshit |editor3-last=Chakravarti |editor3-first=N. P. |editor3-link=N. P. Chakravarti |title=Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXI |date=1931 |pages=157–9 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.56981/page/n213 |access-date=26 October 2024 |chapter=A Note on Tilakwada Plates of the Time of Paramara Bhojadeva of V.S. 1103}}</ref>{{rp|158–9}} The inscription records Jasorāja's grant of the village of Vilūhaja (possibly modern [[Velpur, Gujarat|Velpur]]), along with 100 units of land at Ghaṇṭāpallī, for a temple to the deity Ghaṇṭeśvara (i.e. [[Shiva]]).<ref name="Kudalkar 1919"/>{{rp|46}}<ref name="Diskalkar 1931"/>{{rp|158}} [[J. S. Kudalkar]] reported in 1919 that the temple of Ghaṇṭeśvara still existed at Ghantoli in ruins. He also noted that Ghantoli then had a train station on the [[Motipur, Gujarat|Motipur]]-[[Tankhala]] line in [[Baroda State]].<ref name="Kudalkar 1919"/>{{rp|48}}

== Demographics ==
As of 2011, Ghantoli had a population of 408, in 82 households.<ref name="Census 2011 A"/>{{rp|646}} This population was 52.0% male (215) and 48.0% female (193). The 0-6 age group numbered 59 (32 male and 27 female), making up 17.9% of the total population. No members of Scheduled Castes were recorded. <ref name="Census 2011 B">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Gujarat District Census Handbook - Vadodara, Part B (Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/399/download/1244/DH_2011_2419_PART_B_DCHB_VADODARA.pdf |website=Census of India |access-date=29 October 2024}}</ref>{{rp|332–3}}

== Economy ==
Ghantoli is almost exclusively an agricultural village; out of a total of 151 workers recorded in the 2011 census, all but one were either cultivators (who owned their own land) or agricultural labourers (who worked someone else's land).<ref name="Census 2011 B"/>{{rp|334–5}} There was neither a daily market nor a weekly [[haat]].<ref name="Census 2011 A"/>{{rp|651}}

== Infrastructure ==
As of 2011, Ghantoli had 1 primary school; it did not have any healthcare facilities. Drinking water was provided by tap, hand pump, and tube well or bore well; there were no public toilets. The village had a sub post office but no public library; there was at least some access to electricity for all purposes. Streets were made of both ''[[Indian vernacular architecture#kachcha|kachcha]]'' and ''[[Indian vernacular architecture#pucca|pakka]]'' materials.<ref name="Census 2011 A">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Gujarat District Census Handbook - Vadodara, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/398/download/1240/DH_2011_2419_PART_A_DCHB_VADODARA.pdf |website=Census of India |access-date=29 October 2024}}</ref>{{rp|646–52}}

==References==
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{{Chhota Udaipur district}}

[[Category:Villages in Chhota Udaipur district]]
[[Category:1045 establishments in Asia]]

Ghantoli - Revision history

Dhwanika Joshi at 21:24, 30 October 2024