Alsisar
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| State : | Rajasthan | ||
| District : | Jhunjhunu | ||
| Sub-district : | Jhunjhunu | ||
| Location : | 28 ° 18 ′ N , 75 ° 17 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 280 m | ||
| Area : | 16.37 km² | ||
| Residents : | 5,242 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 320 people / km² | ||
Alsisar is a greener village with around 5,500 inhabitants in the Jhunjhunu district in the Shekhawati region in the northeast of the Indian state of Rajasthan .
location
Alsisar is about 200 km (driving distance) north of Jaipur and about 230 km east of Bikaner at an altitude of about 295 m above sea level. d. M .; the Indian capital Delhi is about 250 km to the east. With the exception of the monsoon season (July to September), the climate is dry and hot.
population
Many residents have immigrated from the rural regions in the last few decades; one speaks mostly Hindi . In contrast to what is common in northern India, the proportion of women in the population exceeds that of men by around 5%.
economy
The Shekhawati region is traditionally agricultural (in earlier times cattle breeding also played an important role); but because of the passing trade caravans, traders settled in some larger villages as early as the 17th and 18th centuries, but after the relocation of trade by sea to the ports of Surat , Bombay and the like. a. migrated. Tourism is only of minor importance.
history
For centuries Alsisar was only a larger village, which only gained a certain importance through the increase in the caravan trade between India and the Middle East and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. Merchants who had become wealthy settled there and built large residential and commercial buildings ( havelis ) that were richly decorated with paintings. After the British came to power , trade increasingly shifted to the seaports further south and the entire Shekhawati region was sidelined.
Attractions
- Distributed in the city are several old merchants' houses (z. B. Kataruka ki haveli , Shri Lal Bahadur time ki haveli , Tejpal Jhunjhunuwala ki haveli , Ramjas Jhunjhunuwala ki haveli , Lakha ka ki haveli ) whose paintings religious popular-with mostly topics ( Krishna and Radha or Rama and Sita ) date from the late 19th or early 20th century.
- There are also several Hindu temples, mostly built in the 19th century and decorated with paintings (e.g. Satya Narayan ji ka temple or Shri Rani Sati ji ka temple ).
- The former palace of the local Thakurs in the fort area has been converted into a stylish hotel.