Kishangarh

Kishangarh State was founded by the Jodhpur prince Kishan Singh in 1609.Prior to the rule of Kishan Singh this area was ruled by Raja Samokhan Singh[1] who was a distant relative of Kishan Singh's family and grandfather of Naubat Khan.[2] Raja Samokhan Singh[3] lost to the forces of Akbar and his grandson Naubat Khan was kept under house arrest.Naubat Khan later accepted Islam.

Savant Singh (reigned 1748-1757) and Bani Thani in the Guise of Krishna and Radha Cruising on Lake Gundalao, Kishangarh

Kishangarh was the capital of the eponymous princely state during the British Raj, which was located in the Rajputana Agency. It had an area of 2210 km² (858 miles²) and a population in 1901 of 90,970. This figure for population represented a decrease of 27% over the census figure of 1891, something presumably attributable to the famine of 1899-1900. The state enjoyed an estimated revenue of £.34,000/- and paid no tribute to the British Raj. In 1840, Prithvi Singh, became the 15th Maharaja of Kishangarh, and reigned till his death in 1879, after which he was succeeded by his son, Sardul Singh.[4]

Prithvi Singh (r.1840-1879), 15th Maharaja of Kishangarh, early 1870s.

Maharaja Madan Singh ascended the throne in 1900 at the age of sixteen,[5] at a time when the state was reeling from the impact of a devastating drought. The administration under him and his diwan was widely deemed worthy of approbation; irrigation from tanks and wells was extended and factories for ginning and pressing cotton were started.[5] A social reform movement for discouraging excessive expenditure on marriages made remarkable impact during his reign.[5]

Brijraj Singhji. The town of Kishangarh has a palace-hotel known as PhoolMahal and a Fort. The city also has a large lake known as the Gond Talav. There are many picnic and religious places situated at the banks of Gond Talav such as Mukham Vilas and Bhairu Ghat. The city also have a small temple of nine planets known as NavGrah. The Kishangarh Fort is surrounded by a canal that was built by Kishan Singh.

As of 2011 India census,[6] Kishangarh had a population of 154,886. Males constitute about 51% of the population and females 49%. Kishangarh has an average literacy rate of 68%, slightly lower than the national average of 74%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 60%. In Kishangarh, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.[7]

Kishangarh economy mainly depends on the Marble trading. Kishangarh has more than 1,000 gangsaws, 5,000 edge cutting machines, around 25,000 godowns and more than 25,000 marble traders and it gives employment to around 1 lac people. The widest range of Indian, Italian and Makrana marble is on display in this area. It also has a flourishing market for power-loom and ball mills sector.

• Pitamber Ki Gaal (Picnic spot)
• Phool Mahal Palace
• Chauburja (A mini fort situated at hill in outskirts of the city)
• Marble Slurry Dumping Yard (An emerging destination for film shooting. The stone slurries from nearby factories is dumped here, giving the location a feel of snow-covered plain.)[8]
• Khoda Ganesh Temple
• Laxminarayan Temple - A modern temple made in the old, classical style by Aditya Mills Ltd. run by the Kanoria family.
• Gundolaav Lake
• Nepheline Syenite, National Geological Monument
• Nimbarkacharya Peeth
• Nine Planets Temple
• Sukh Sagar
• Mokham Villas
• Thakur G Temple sanwatsar
• Shri Naka Wala Balaji Mandir, Khatoli
• city view at mountain cliff, Kishangarh

Nepheline Syenite, National Geological Monument

One of the 32 National Geological Monument of India

Kishangarh Nepheline Syenite is among the 32 National Geological Monuments in India notified by Geological Survey of India(GSI), for their protection, maintenance, promotion and enhancement of geotourism.[10][11][12] Nepheline syenite here is an intrusion pluton emplaced along the core of an antiform of metamorphites in Aravalli craton which has been dated 1590 million years to 1910 million years old.[13]

In 2009, Central University of Rajasthan a central university fully funded by Government of India, came into force in Bandar Sindri.

Bani Thani, a miniature in Kishangarh-style of Rajasthani Painting.

Kishangarh painting[14] emerged as a distinctive style in the middle of 18th century under the patronage of Maharaja Sawant Singh. Nihâl Chand, a gifted artist in the Maharaja's court, produced some highly individualistic sophisticated works. The chief characteristics of the Kishangarh paintings were the elongation of human faces and lavish use of green and depiction of panoramic landscapes. Portrayals of Radha and Krishna with sloped, receding foreheads are common subjects of Kishangarh paintings. Painters typically depicted long, lotus-shaped, half-closed sensual eyes.[15] The thin lips and pointed chin of Radha standing in a graceful pose with her head covered with a muslin odhni, is also characteristic of the Kishangarh school. This style continued into the 19th century and a series of paintings of the Gita Govinda were produced in 1820.

• As of May 2019, the Kishangarh Airport is now fully functional with daily flights for Delhi, Ahmedabad, Indore and Hyderabad.[16]
• Kishangarh railway station is on the Jaipur-Ahmedabad line
• Kishangarh was the only city in Rajasthan where the work of Railway Station, Bus Depot And Airport was going on simultaneously. The Bus Depot and the new Railway station have already commenced commercial operations.
• Transport facilities are available to various places in the city, with local autos a common choice.
• There are trains plying to almost every direction from Kishangarh. It is also an important halt For many South bound and North bound trains.
• Ajmer Junction is also an important railway interchange nearby, connecting trains to and from a variety of National Rail routes and lines.
• New Kishangarh railway station is now functional with many new advancements but electrification is still under construction below the Ahemdabad-Ajmer-Phulera-Delhi Doubling scheme.

Kishangarh is one of the fastest growing cities of Rajasthan, with the Government making investment in it through the SMART cities scheme (as part of Ajmer). An Agro processing park was also inaugurated on 2 April 2018, in Roopangarh by the Union Minister for Food Processing, Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

• Central University of Rajasthan

• Kossak, Steven (1997). Indian court painting, 16th-19th century.. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870997831. (see index: p. 148-152, for more information about Kishangarh painting)

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