Place · Rathore desert fort · India
Khimsar Fort, Nagaur
Also known as Khimsar, Khimsar (Rathore desert fort), Khimsar Fort, Nagaur
A small Rathore fort at the edge of the dunes east of Jodhpur, built in 1523 by Rao Karamsot, a son of Rao Jodha, and occupied by the same family since. It is the ordinary scale of Marwar fortification: a walled enclosure with a well, a granary and a few hundred people, rather than a Mehrangarh.
- Date
- 1523 onward
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 26.970, 73.330
Worth knowing
Half the fort was given over to a zenana wing with its own entrance in the eighteenth century, and the other half is a hotel now, which is what happened to a great many of these buildings after the privy purses were abolished in 1971. Blackbuck and demoiselle cranes come to the dunes a few kilometres away every winter.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Khimsar”. Rajasthan State Gazetteer, Nagaur district; Giles Tillotson, The Rajput Palaces (1987).
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