Rajasthan definition

räjə-stän
A state of northwest India on the border with Pakistan. Formerly composed of numerous princely states mostly under Rajput rule, the region fell to the British in the 1800s, was integrated into independent India after 1947, and gained statehood in 1956. Jaipur is the capital.
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(place) State of NW India, on the Pakistani border: 132,139 sq mi (342,239 sq km); cap. Jaipur.
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Rajasthan Sentence Examples

  • Rajasthan is well known for its rich cultural heritage and for its varied and unique handicrafts.

  • She has carried out intensive fieldwork among the social and political elites of Rajasthan and has published on ritual and kingship.

  • Artisans from Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra staged craft demonstrations and sold their work.

  • In 1818 he was appointed political agent for the states of western Rajputana, where he conciliated the chieftains, settled their mutual feuds and collected materials for his Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (2 vols., 1829-1832).

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