Monday, 16 April 2018

11th century greatest age indian architecture KIRADU THE TEMPAL OF RAJASTHAN BARMER

11th century greatest age indian architecture: KIRADU
Kiradu temples are one of the major temples in Rajasthan which is majorly known as a horror spot rather than being a tourist attraction in Rajasthan. The temples of Kiradu are a group of temples which is also known as the Khajuraho of Rajasthan and they are famous for their ancient haunted stories. The temples are famous for being a favorable spot for the lovers and the temples is also has a haunted background and the stories are rally spine chilling. It is a faith that no people stay here after sunset nearby the temples because it is said that anyone who will stay here will turned into stones and this is the story which is also remembered as the history of the temples which are scary yet thrilling.
Click the image to open in full size.According to the researchers the temple was built around 11th century and was built by King Dushalraja and he was from the Paramar clan. There are many inscriptions present on the walls of the temple that defines its existence to the 12th century and also relate to the Chalukya dynasty. The pillars of the temples are engraved with such kinds of scripts and they belong to the Hindu calendar of the ancient e1ra of the Chalukya dynasty during the reign of Madan Bhramadeva Chauhan. There are altogether three temples present in the vicinity and they are dedicated to Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva and their idols are also present here but the temples are found in ruining condition.

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The History of Kiradu Temples

The temples of Kiradu are believed to be haunted as the village is having many such kinds of stories rolling around. It is believed an heard that there was a sage who visited the village and he requested the villagers to take care of his disciples as he was away from the place for some days but nobody took care of them but there was a woman who took care of the disciples as the sage was away. And when he came back he found his disciples in nearly dead condition and was very angry with the villagers who drove him to curse the entire village to turn into stone as they did not have any feelings in their heart so with anger and he just asked the women to move out from the village if she wants to go to escape from the curse and also asked her to not to turn back as she would also turn into stone and the women ran away from there.  And being curious she turned back and as a consequence she turned into stone. And there is a statue of women of stone can be seen in the border of the village posing looking back, so the people out here feel that the stories are somehow true. And eventually no body stays here after evening as they believe that whosoever will remain after evening here will turn into stone.

Saturday, 6 January 2018

Culture of Rajasthan INDIA


            Culture of Rajasthan




In Rajasthan, hardly any month would have been such that there would be no religious celebration. The most notable and special festival is Ganagaur, in which the idols of Mahadev and Parvati are worshiped by women of all castes for 15 days, and they are then immersed in water. In the celebration of the immersion, the priests and officials are also included, and with the play music, the dressing room comes out. Both Hindus and Muslims join each other's festivals. On these occasions, enthusiasm and glee are dominated.

Another major festival is in Pushkar near Ajmer, which is a mixed form of religious festival and animal fair. Here, farmers from all over the state come with their camels and cows and buffaloes and pilgrims come in search of liberation. The Durga of Sufi Spiritualist Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti of Ajmer is one of the holiest dargahs of India's Muslims. On the occasion of Urs, about three lakh devotees come to the dargah from country and abroad every year.

Ceramics Store, Jaipur



  • Dance drama

The distinctive dance of Rajasthan is Ghoomar, which is performed by women only on the occasion of festivals. Gheer dance (Ponyhari (women's eloquent dance of women), and kachi mare (in which the male dancer is sitting on the Vanwati mare) is also popular, the most famous song is 'Khurja', in which the story of a woman , Who wants to send a message to her husband through the Khurja bird, and promises her a prize for her service instead. Prithviraj Raso or Chand Rasa, which is the earliest handwriting of the 12th century, is a popular medium of entertainment, which is a dance-drama And whose poetic theme is based on festivals, history or romance, ancient rarities in Rajasthan In RA, including Buddhist inscriptions, Jain temples, castles, magnificent princely palaces and mosques dome.

  • Festival

Rajasthan is the land of fairs and festivals.
Besides prominent national festivals such as Holi, Deepawali, Vijayadashmi, Christmas, many Goddesses, saints and folklores and heroines are celebrated on the occasion of birthdays.
Important fairs are Tees, Gangaur (Jaipur), Ajmer Sharif and Annual Urs of Galiakot, Tribal Aquarius of Beneshwar (Dungarpur), Mahaveer ji (Sawai Madhopur Mela), Ramdeora (Jaisalmer), Jambheshwar Jee Mela (Mukam-Bikaner) , Kartik Purnima and animal fair (Pushkar-Ajmer) and Shyam jee Mela (Sikar) etc.


  • Tourism festival

There is no exaggeration to say Rajasthan as the main center of festival tourism. Pushkar Fair is one of the biggest attractions in the country. Every year millions of pilgrims come to Pushkar and immerse themselves in holy lake. Here is also the biggest camel fair in the world, in which 50,000 camels participate. In January 2010, this fair attracted a large number of foreign tourists. Every 12 years there is a kumbh in Allahabad, Haridwar, Ujjain and Nashik, whereas in every six years, the semi-Kumbh is held in Haridwar and Prayag. These include foreign tourists in large numbers.



Pushkar Fair india

                       
                     Pushkar Fair


Pushkar Fair



The famous pilgrimage place of Hindus is 11 kms away from Ajmer. [1] Here Kartik Purnima is celebrated, which includes a large number of domestic and foreign tourists. [2] Thousands of Hindus come to this fair Are there. To make themselves holy, take a bath in Pushkar Lake. Visitors and tourists visit Sri Rang Ji and other temples and receive spiritual benefits.



State administration also gives special importance to this fair. Local administration organizes this fair and art culture and tourism departments present cultural programs on this occasion.

At this time, animal fair is also organized here, in which various animals related programs are also done, in which the best breed animals are rewarded. This is the main attraction of the animal fair.

The number of tourists visiting generally on any mythological site in India is far more than that of tourists coming to Pushkar. Among them, the number of foreign tourists, which Pushkar is particularly liked. Pushkar Camel Fair, which takes place every year in the Kartik month, has given this place a unique identity throughout the world. At the time of the fair, many cultures get mixed together in Pushkar. On one side, foreign tourists arrive in number to see the fair; on the other hand, tribals and rural people come from all parts of Rajasthan and surrounding areas to join the fair with their animals. The fair is planted in the vast field of sand. A lot of queue queues, shops, eating stalls, circuses, swings and do not know what to do. The camel is near the fair and the desert, so the camels are seen on all sides. But in time it has become a huge animal fair.

Jaisalmer Dessert Festival rajasthan india

Jaisalmer Dessert Festival
Rajasthan is a state of fairs and festivals, Desert Festival is one of the most important festival of being a desert state, in Jaisalmer. It is held every year in January or February for three days. This festival is celebrated in Jaisalmer city in Rajasthan, which also calls the Golden City. This is the best time for Jaisalmer to see performances like Kalbelia dance, folk songs and music.

Desert festival starts in Rajasthan with many wonderful events and runs for 3 days. Tourists are coming from all over India and around the world and enjoy the real and typical Rajasthani lifestyle and their culture. Foreign tourists are very interested in participating in this festival of Jaisalmer

Activities like aerial acrobatics, folk dances, childhood show Show you here Stalls are illuminated for sale for various traditional items. Miraculous dance performances, such as gorgeous dance and dance, can see fire dance with colorful spinning skirts, which include sparkling mir work duptas and folk music. Recreational folk music and dance by local artists, which are called non-fire dance, actually make fun stuff. To find various intimate and traditional items in tourist shops.

The Desert Festival is celebrated on the full moon day and it represents rich and colorful Rajasthani folk culture. In addition to folk dance and music, in many other competitions such as turbulent competition and the longest face competition, the world-famous Baluputli shows are also held in Dessert-festival. It is organized once in a festival held in the festival.



Friday, 5 January 2018

Abouts indian golden states rajasthan




About Rajasthan

Rajasthan is located in the northwestern part of the subcontinent. It is the state of Gujarat in the west and north-west borders of Pakistan, north and north-east, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, east and south-east in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and south-west. Cancer line passes through the Banswara district on its southern tip. The total area of ​​the state is 3,42,239 square kilometers. Rajasthan is the capital of Rajasthan.

Geography and climate of Rajasthan

West Rajasthan is relatively dry and barren; in some parts it is also known as Thar desert which is also called Great Indian Desert. In the south-western part of the state, the land is moist, mountainous and more fertile. Climate in entire Rajasthan keeps changing. The average temperature in winter is 8 degrees to 28 degrees Celsius and in summer it is 25 degrees to 46 degrees Celsius.The average of rainfall also varies, because about 100 mm in the western desert. Annual and 650 mm in the south-eastern part of the state Rainy annually happens. Most of this rain occurs during the monsoon from July to September.

history of Rajasthan

On the basis of archaeological and historical evidence, it is found that the history of human habitation being here continuously is 1,00,000 years old. Several dynasties emerged between the 7th and the 11th centuries. At the beginning of the 16th century, Rajput power touched its peak. Akbar brought some Rajput kingdoms under Mughal rule. In the beginning of the 19th century, they became associated with the Marathas. With the decline of the Mughals, the Rajputs gradually regained independence with a series of many glorious victories.
However, a new power emerged as British later Many Rajput states collaborated with the British and they allowed every state to continue to rule with their king as an independent state, but with some economic and political restrictions. This alliance proved to be the beginning of the end of Rajputs and soon the decline of Rajput rule started due to the incontinence and luxury of these kings. The present form of Rajasthan found it after independence.

Demographics of Rajasthan
According to the 2011 census, the total population of Rajasthan is 6,85,48,437. The population growth rate in the last ten years has been 21.44 percent. Rajasthan's sex ratio is 926 females for 1000 males. The literacy rate of the state is 67.06 percent. The biggest cities of Rajasthan are Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota. There are 33 districts in Rajasthan state.

  • Rajasthan government and politics

Rajasthan has a 200-seat single room assembly. There are 35 members in the Indian Parliament from the state, in which 10 Rajya Sabha ie the upper house and 25 Lok Sabha seats ie the lower house. The local government is based on 30 administrative districts. Rajasthan is dominated by two major parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress.

  • Rajasthan's economy and basic infrastructure

Economy of Rajasthan is specially based on agriculture and here millet, wheat, maize and cotton are grown. Some areas of the state are very dry and Thar is covered with desert. In Rajasthan, the total cultivated land is 27,465 thousand hectares and sowing area is 20,167 thousand hectares. Tourism is also a special part of the state's economy. Primarily, agriculture and rustic economy also have good reserves of mineral resources in Rajasthan.In this state, India produces whole zinc essence, as well as panna, garnet, gypsum, silver ore, asbestos, feldspar and mica production. There are rich reserves of salt in other places and copper mines in Khetri and Dariba. There are white marble mines in Makrana near Jodhpur. The major industries here are textiles, carpet and woolen accessories, vegetable oils and colors. Heavy industries include construction of railway rolling stack, copper and zinc smelting work.The chemical industry here also produces caustic soda, calcium carbide and sulfuric acid, fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides. The major industrial complexes of Rajasthan are in Jaipur, Kota, Udaipur and Bhilwara.Being a few acres of dry land, Rajasthan requires a lot of irrigation. It gets water from Punjab rivers, western Yamuna in Haryana, Agra canal of Uttar Pradesh, Sabarmati in South and Narmada Sagar project.There are thousands of villages, there are ponds or lakes, but most of them are drought or sore. Rajasthan, Punjab along with Bhakra Nangal project and Chambal valley project with Madhya Pradesh, and these two are used for irrigation and drinking water. In the memory of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the name of the Rajasthan Canal was changed to Indira Gandhi Canal in 1985.This canal irrigates the desert land of about 400 miles north-western and western Rajasthan by carrying water from Beas and Sutlej rivers.

  • Society and culture of Rajasthan

Rajputs are a small part of Rajasthan's population, but this is a very important part of the state. He is very proud of his fighting reputation and ancestors. The Brahmin class is divided into many tribes, whereas the merchant class Mahajan is in many groups. Some of these classes are Jain and all other Hindus. Jat and Gurjar are among the largest agricultural communities in the north and west.

Meenas, roaming merchants and artisans i.e. Banjare, and another Dhantam tribe who make and repair domestic and agricultural goods i.e. Gadiya blacksmiths are included in tribals of Alwar, Jaipur, Bharatpur and Dholpur areas. One of the oldest people in India, 'Bhil' who is famous for his archery skills, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Banswara, Udaipur and Sirohi. Grasia and Nambadush Kathodi live in the Mewar area. Saharia is the cattle breeder in Kota district, and Rabari is the cattle breed in Mewar area.

  • Festivals of rajasthan

The festival of spring, coming to the end of March or early April in the most special festivals of Rajasthan, is the festival of Ganjaur and Teej in August. Tee welcomes the monsoon when many lakes of the state become elusive. Famous festivals of Rajasthan include Pushkar cattle fair, which will be held in mid-November, Nagaur Festival in late January or early February and Kolayat Mela in mid-or late November.Desert Festival, which takes place in February in Jaisalmer, is also a famous modern fair.


  • Languages ​​in Rajasthan

Rajasthan is the main language of Rajasthan. This language of poem is sung for heroes, from the Indo-Aryan dialect of Dingal. Four main dialects include Marwari in western Rajasthan, Jaipuri or Dhandhari of East and South East, Malvi of south-east Malvi region and Mewati in Alwar, which are the colors of Braj language of Bharatpur district. With the education of today's era, the use of Rajasthani is becoming less and instead it is taking the official language of Rajasthan into Hindi.


  • Education in Rajasthan

In the last few years, Rajasthan has made a lot of progress in terms of education. According to the 2011 census, the state's literacy rate was 67.06 percent. School level education in the state is affiliated to Rajasthan Secondary Education Board or Rajasthan Central Board of Secondary Education. There are nine universities in the state and more than 250 colleges. There are approximately 23 polytechnic colleges and more than 150 industrial training institutes.The three most famous educational institutions of the state include IIT Jodhpur, Pilani's Birla Institute of Technology and Science and IIM Udaipur.
Religion in Rajasthan
Most of the population here belong to the Hindu religion which generally worship Shiva, Shakti and Vishnu and other gods and goddesses. Natha is a very special religious place for the devotees of Lord Krishna's Vallabhacharya sect. Here the followers of Arya Samaj of the reformist sect of Hinduism and other types of Hindu religion also live. Jainism is also very prominent here. This is not the religion of rulers of Rajasthan, but many people in the society and business people of the society believe it.
Mahavir, Ranakpur, Dhulai and Karera are most special in the shrines of Jainism. Another important religious sect belongs to the dalits, who are followers of Dadu. Dadu had taught equality, strict vegetarianism, alcohol sacrifice and lifetime brahmacharya among all the people.


  • Tourism of Rajasthan

Thousands of tourists from all over India come from Rajasthan with natural beauty. Tourism constitutes more than eight percent of the state's domestic product. Rajasthan is famous for its forts, temples and decorated havelis. Many old and neglected fortresses and palaces have been transformed into heritage hotels. This has increased employment in hospitality ie hospitality sector. There are many tourist sites in Rajasthan, especially those of ancient and middle ages architecture.Other tourist places include Mount Abu, Ajmer, Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar, Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary of Bharatpur, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Pali, Jaisalmer and Chittorgarh. Tourism was awarded industry status in 1992.


The city to visit in Rajasthan

  • Ajmer
  • Bikaner
  • Alwar
  • Udaipur
  • Jaipur
  • Jodhpur
  • Pushkar
  • Bharatpur
  • Chittorgarh
  • Jaisalmer
  • quota
  • Bundi


transportation

This state is connected to many national highways, the most important NH 8 is. Rajasthan has three major airports connecting this state with other important cities of the country. Most of the city's cities are connected to the railway.