Nagaur
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Nagaur नागौर |
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| City | |
 Nagaur
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| Coordinates: 27°12′N 73°44′E / 27.2°N 73.73°ECoordinates: 27°12′N 73°44′E / 27.2°N 73.73°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Rajasthan |
| District | Nagaur |
| Government | |
| • Type | Democracy |
| • Body | District Collector |
| • MP | C.R.Choudhary |
| • Collector & DM | Rajan Vishal , IAS |
| • Chairman,City Council | Kriparam Solanki |
| Elevation | 302 m (991 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 102,872 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi, English |
| • Local | Marwari |
| Languages | |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Vehicle registration | RJ-21 |
| Website | http://nagaur.rajasthan.gov.in/ |
Nagaur (Nāgaur) is a city in the state of Rajasthan in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Nagaur District. The Nagaur city lies about midway between Jodhpur and Bikaner.
The fort is of historical importance. The Rajput rulers dominated Nagaur for a longer period. Nagaur ruler were repeatedly forced to pay tribute to the Sisodias of Chittor while their lands were slowly annexed by the Rathors of Jodhpur. In fact the case of Nagaur vividly illustrates the turning back of the tide of Islamic conquests in Rajputana in the 14th and 15th Centuries. Nagaur, north to Bikaner, and up to the border of Punjab, was called Jangladesh in ancient times. The remains of some of the earliest settlements along the banks of the long dried-up Saraswati River can be seen to this day—in a later age it came under the Naga rulers after whom the town of Nagaur (Naga-pura) is named. The name of Jangladesh was known till a very late period. The Rajput rulers of Bikaner, whose territory eventually embraced the bulk of Jangla country, sported the title Jai Jangaldhar Badshah, which was emblazoned on the state coat of arms during the British Raj. In the medieval era the town of Nagaur sat astride trade routes coming north from Gujarat and Sindh and those on the west crossing the Indus from Multan. With a dead flat plain all around, the defense of the fort depended on the military and economic power of its rulers—and from the period of the Ghaznavid invasions Nagaur was under the powerful Chauhan clan. A succession of rulers kept the whole of Jangladesh free from foreign rule down to the reign of Prithviraj Chauhan III at the close of the 12th Century. That Nagaur town came under the invaders is clear since Balban, before becoming Sultan, was given an estate centered on this desert town. But just as there were petty Hindu chiefs (of numerous castes) in the vast lands between Ajmer and Delhi, it is reasonable to suppose that such landholders were also present in the lands between Ajmer and Nagaur, paying land revenue to the Muslims and probably joining their army.
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