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KISHANGARH

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KISHANGARH , a native See also:

state of See also:India, in the See also:Rajputana agency. See also:Area, 858 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 90,970, showing a decrease of 27% in the See also:decade, due to the See also:famine of 1899–1900; estimated See also:revenue, £34,000; there is no See also:tribute. The state was founded in the reign of the See also:emperor See also:Akbar, by a younger son of the See also:raja of See also:Jodhpur. In 1818 Kishangarh first came into See also:direct relations with the See also:British See also:government, by entering into a treaty, together with the other See also:Rajput states, for the suppression of the Pindari marauders by whom the See also:country was at that See also:time overrun. The See also:chief, whose See also:title is maharaja, is a Rajput of the Rathor See also:clan. Maharaja See also:Madan Singh ascended the See also:throne in 1900 at the See also:age of sixteen, and attended the See also:Delhi See also:Durbar of 1903 as a See also:cadet in the Imperial Cadet See also:Corps. The See also:administration, under the diwan, is highly spoken of. See also:Irrigation from tanks and See also:wells has been extended; factories for ginning and pressing See also:cotton have been started; and the social reform See also:movement, for discouraging excessive See also:expenditure on marriages, has been very successful. The state is traversed by the Rajputana railway. The See also:town of KISHANGARH IS 18 m. N.W. of See also:Ajmere by See also:rail.

Pop. (1901), 12,663. It is the See also:

residence of many Jain merchants.

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