Place · Rathore fort capital · India
Bikaner
Also known as Bikaner, Bīkānēr
The Rathore capital of the north-western Rajput desert, founded in 1488 by Rao Bika, a younger son of the Jodhpur Rathore house, who marched north from Marwar and settled on the edge of the Thar. Junagarh Fort of 1589 is one of the few major Rajput forts not built on a hill; the Lallgarh Palace of 1902 is the Jodhpur-period extension in Indo-Saracenic style. The Karni Mata temple at Deshnok is thirty kilometres south, and the Rao Bikaji chhatris complex and Bhand Sagar Jain temples remain the city's older sacred layer. Bikaner school miniature painting under Anup Singh in the seventeenth century rivals Mewar in refinement.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Tradition
- Standard reference and civic histories; INTACH and ASI records; municipal and state gazetteers.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.023, 73.312
Connections (2)
- Site withinJunagarh Fort, Bikaner
Junagarh Fort, Bikaner sits inside Bikaner and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinLallgarh Palace, Bikaner
Lallgarh Palace, Bikaner sits inside Bikaner and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.