Jhalrapatan is a town in Jhalawar

Jhalawar

Jhalawar is a city in southeastern Rajasthan. It was the capital of the former princely state of Jhalawar, and is the administrative headquarters of Jhalawar District. Jhalawar was once known as Brijnagar .-Jhalawar town:...

 district of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 state in India

India

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. It is an ancient place. It is said to be city of temples, the bells of which sounded in the ancient city hence named Jhalrapatan or city of bells . Some say the name originated from the tribe Jhala

Jhala

Jhala is a term in Hindustani classical music which denotes the fast-paced conclusions of classical compositions. It is often characterized by the overwhelming of the melodic component by the rhythmic component. This is sometimes effected by the rapid striking together of the chikari between notes....

 of regent Jalim Singh.

History

The ruins of the city cover an area of more than a mile from east to west and about a mile from north to south. Here several specimens of punch marked and other old coins have been discovered confirming antiquity of the place.

Jhalrapatan is specially famous for large number of temples. Of the early temples about four or five still survive. The most famous of them is temple of Sitalesvara Mahadeva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

. Fergusson, the noted historian considered this temple to be oldest and most beautiful that he ever saw and rated this to be one of the most elegant specimens of architecture in India.

The other old temples are temple of Kalikadevi and temple of Varaha

Varaha

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 Avatar

Avatar

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 and Jain temple of Shantinatha.
First nagarpalika in india is established herein the time of british reign(compiled by dr ravi gupta a dentist)

Geography

Jhalrapatan is located at 24.55°N 76.17°E. It has an average elevation of 317 metres (1040 feet).

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Jhalrapatan had a population of 30103. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Jhalrapatan has an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 60%. In Jhalrapatan, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.mohnish