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Reported by The Statesman.
Thikriya observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
The principal temple recorded for Piploda mandal is ambika beej. No temple of this dedication is on record within Thikriya itself.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Thikriya ranks #77 of 91 villages in Piploda mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Thikriya is a village of 467 people in 104 households (Census 2011) in Piploda tehsil, Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, the 77th-largest of 91 villages in Piploda tehsil. Literacy is 52%, 8 points below the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 891 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 457226, served by Jaora post office; the LGD village code is 469974. The sarpanch is Chandni jain , and the village votes in Jaora assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rajendra Pandey Alias Raju Bhaiya. The population is estimated at 551 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ranigaw →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
Centred on Piploda mandal
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