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Jhalawar - The land immensely rich in arts, culture, history and natural beauty.

Always teeming with color, joy and friendliness
that's unique to this part of the Rajasthan.

Fascination within the kaleidoscope of magnificent forts, palaces, temples, each with a splendid architectural creation having a legend of its own.

Jhalawar and surroundings still retain the medieval flavor keeping alive the timeless tradition in its rich arts, crafts, colorful markets and vibrant people wearing multi-hued costumes and a bright smile.

Temples

The sacred and the divine, the lofty and the sublime. Devotion, Love, Compassion. The temples of Jhalawar embody all this and much more. Richness in pre-historic architecture and sculptures makes it great in artistic ways.

Gupt- & Post-Gupt Temples

At Jhalara Patan on the banks of river Chandrabhaga stands the earliest dated temple of Rajasthan (689 A. D.). Architecture shows elegant and pristine Gupta workmanship. It is the sanctum, vestibule and half man - dapa of the Sheetaleshwara temple at Jhalara Patan.

Chandrabhaga Temples

Bhumij Temples

Coeval with the Solanki temples are the Bhumij temples. Originating in Malwa, the chief characteristic of the style is an ascending string of mini-spires, set between the four cardinal bands of the spire over the sanctum. Sun temple of Jhalara Patan belongs to this category.

Surya Temple

Paintings

Large collection of colorful paintings can be found in Jhalawar Garh Palace and Jhalawar Museum. Various rulers of Jhalawar added beautiful paintings inside the rooms of the palace, which present the glimpses of colorful culture of Hadoti and Rajasthan. These paintings also reflect the lifestyle of rulers of that time.

Temples also have glimpses of gods and goddesses in form of ancient paintings. These paintings reflects various plays of gods like Krishna, Vishnu and Rama.

A Royal Lady looking beyond the doors

Krishna Leela Dhola Maaru Painting

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Eternal Beauty
Devotion & Love
Glimpses of history
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Jhalawar lives in the sleepy villages...You can see the men working out in fields, women doing their routine work in the hot summers and cold winters...
Major profession of the rural people is Agriculture. They give their full-time in looking for crops, while women helping them in ploughing, and other farming work...