Rajgarh Town, Reni nizamat

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Rajgarh Town

(3). Head-quarters of a tahsil of the same name in the Reni nizamat of the State of Bikaner, Rajputana, situated in 28 39' N. and 75 24' E., about 135 miles east by north-east of Bikaner city. Population (1901), 4,136. The town was built by Maharaja Gaj Singh about 1766, and was named after his son Raj Singh. It possesses an Anglo-vernacular school attended by 74 boys, a post office, and a hospital with accommodation for 7 in-patients. The tahsil contains 187 villages, and more than 36 per cent of the inhabitants are Jats. As most of them belong to the Puniya clan, the tract used to be called locally the Puniya pargana. The Kath river sometimes flows in the south for a few miles.