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Bikaner

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Bikaner

City in Rajasthan, northern India, 200 km/125 mi north of Jodhpur on the edge of the Thar Desert; population (2001) 529,000. Once capital of the Rajput state of Bikaner, it is now a centre for carpet-weaving. It developed originally as a centre for cross-desert trade. From 1571 to 1611 the Junagarh fort was built on a rocky outcrop as a defensive measure by the ruling princes; it contains a fine collection of Sanskrit and Persian books.



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The capital is Jaipur; other large cities are Ajmer, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kota, and Udaipur.
GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, KCB DGBStJ, Kaiser-i-Hind (13 October 1880, Bikaner–2 February 1943, Bombay) was a ruler with modern reformist vision of the princely state of Bikaner in present-day Rajasthan, India.
 
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