Sheo

Sheo or Shiv^[1] is a village in Barmer district of Rajasthan state of India. It is a tehsil headquarters. It is also spelled as Shiv, although Sheo is the preferred way of writing the name. The village is located in the Thar desert.

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Tehsil (headquarters)
Sheo
Nickname:  Shiv
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Country	India
State	Rajasthan
District	Barmer
Founded by	Rajpurohit
Government
• Type	Democratic
• Body	Congress
Elevation	233 m (764 ft)
Population
• Total	50,000
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	344701
ISO 3166 code	RJ-IN
Vehicle registration	RJ-04
Nearest city	Barmer, Rajasthan
Lok Sabha constituency	Barmer (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Rajput, Mali, Raj purohit and Muslim dominated This village has an important contribution in the politics of Rajasthan, province of India. Jaswant Singh Jasol, father of the politician of the Sheo region, Manvendra Singh, has made an important contribution to the politics of India. The current Sheo MLA is Mr. Ravindra Singh Bhati and first independent win in his constituency's history. He started his political journey from Student politics and became president of Jai Narain Vyas University Student Union. It is famous for its variety of cuisines, culture and ethnicity.