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Kishangarh (किशनगढ़ in Hindi) is a city and a municipality in Ajmer district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It lies 18 miles north-west of Ajmer. It is well connected via Indian Railways and National Highway #8. It is the birth place of the Kishangarh style of painting, which is known for the beautiful depiction of a courtesan known as Bani Thani. In recent years, Kishangarh has come to be known as the marble city of India. It is purported to be the only place in the world with a temple of nine planets.
Princely history
Kishangarh State was founded by the Jodhpur prince Kishan Singh in 1609.
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 Rs.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[1].
Major Daulat Singh from Sardar Singh ji ki Dhani was Prime Minister of Shahpura State, later on he was Jagir Commissioner in Government of Rajasthan. He has served Rajasthan State as distinguished bureaucrat, later on he was honoured having accorded with the Managing Directorship of The Bank of Rajasthan Ltd.
Advocate Ghanshyam Das Chaudhari was the first Chairman of Municipal Board Kishangarh after India's Independence in 1947. His son[2] Justice Kishan Swaroop Chaudhari is the only person elevated as Judge, Rajasthan High Court from Kishangarh subdivision.
The state was founded in the early 17th century by Kishan Singh, a younger son of the raja of Jodhpur, during the reign of Akbar (r.1556-1605)[1]. He was a courtier of the Mughals, and was rewarded for services rendered to the emperor Akbar. In 1818, Kishangarh first came into direct relations with the British by entering into a treaty, in common its neighbouring states, for the suppression of the Pindari marauders by whom the country was at that time overrun. The chief, who held the title of Maharaja, was a Rajput of the Rathor clan.
Maharaja Madan Singh ascended the throne in 1900 at the age of sixteen, 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. A social reform movement for discouraging excessive expenditure on marriages made remarkable impact during his reign.
The present maharaja (sic) is Brijraj Singhji. The town of Kishangarh has a beautiful palace-hotel known as PhoolMahal. The city also has a large pond 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 being surrounded by canal that was built by Kishan Singh.
Demographics
As of 2001 India census[3], Kishangarh had a population of 116,156. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Kishangarh has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 52%. In Kishangarh, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Economy
Kishangarh economy mainly depends on the marble production and trading. Kishangarh has more than 1000 gangsaws, 5000 edge cutting machines, around 25000 godowns and more than 25000 marble traders and it gives employment to around 1lac peoples. Kishangarh also have good market for poweloom and boil mills sector.
Main Attractions of the City
- pitamber ki gaal,
- khoda ganesh,
- mokham vilas(jannat),
- kishangarh fort,
- sukhsagar
- mountain reigon,
- lnt(laxmi narayan temple)
- gondulav lake,
- hamir sagar,
- thilonia"s barefoot college,
Kishangarh Painting
Kishangarh painting[4] emerged as a distinctive style in the middle of 18th century under the patronage of Maharaja Sawant Singh. Nihal Chand, a gifted artist in the Maharaja's court, produced some highly individualistic Radha and sophisticated works. The chief characteristics of the Kishengarh paintings were the elongation of human faces, lavish use of green and depiction of panoramic landscapes. Portrayal of Radha and Krishna in elongated faces is a common subject of Kishangarh paintings. The elongated neck, the long stylised eyes with drooping eyelids, the thin lips and pointed chin of Radha standing in a graceful pose with her head covered with a muslin odhni, is undoubtedly the most striking creation of the Kishangarh school. This style continued into the 19th century and a series of paintings of the Gita Govinda were produced in 1820.
Bani Thani
The most famous Kishangarh painting is called Bani Thani.[5] The Indian government has engraved it on one of its postal stamps. The Bani Thani style of painting got its name from a story with a twist of romance to it. In the Kishangarh court during the 18th century there ruled a poet-king called Raja Samant Singh (1699–1764) who had eyes only for Bani Thani, a court singer and poet. Bani Thani’s eyes were what drew Samant Singh to her, and so did her singing. Seeing Bani Thani singing in his court each day helped the king’s heart grow fonder. Now Samant Singh wrote poetry under the name of Nagari Das, and since Bani Thani was a poet in her own right too, love was not far behind.
References
- ^ a b Kishangarh British Library.
- ^ Justice Kishan Swaroop Chaudhari
- ^ Template:GR
- ^ Kishangarh Painting
- ^ [1] Bani Thani
External links
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- Kishangarh City
- Genealogy of the ruling chiefs of Kishangarh
- Justice Kishan Swaroop Chaudhari
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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