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This article has been extracted from <br/>

THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>

OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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''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. ''


=Jhalrapatan Chhaoni=

==cantonment==


Chief town and official capital of the State of Jhalawar, Rajputana, situated in 24° 36' N. and 76 1o' E., on a rising stretch of rocky ground over 1,000 feet above 
the sea, between the fort of Gagraun (in Kotah) and the town of 
Jhalrapatan. The chhaoni, as it is always called locally, was founded 
in 1 791 by Zalim Singh, regent of Kotah, and was at first merely a 
permanent camp, which he made his head-quarters on account of its 
central and strategical position. Houses gradually took the place of 
tents and huts, and in course of time the old camp attained the impor- 
tance of a town. The population in 1901 numbered 14,315, of whom 
9,501, or 66 per cent., were Hindus, and 4,402, or 31 per cent., Musal- 
mans. The Raj Rana's palace is enclosed by a high masonry wall 
forming a square, with large circular bastions at each corner, and two 
semicircular ones in the centre of each side of the square. 


The principal entrance is on the eastern side, and the approach to it is along the 
main street of the bazar running due east and west. About a mile to 
the south-west is a sheet of water, below which are several gardens, 
and in one of these is the summer residence of the chief, surrounded 
by a canal filled with water from the tank. The sanitation, lighting, 
water-supply, and roads of the chhaoni are looked after by a municipal 
committee which was established about 1876-7. The receipts, derived 
mainly from the rent of State houses and shops and the sale of un- 
claimed property, average about Rs. 5,000 yearly, and the expenditure 
is slightly less. Besides the palace, law courts, and public offices, the 
town contains a combined post' and telegraph office, a Central jail, 
a couple of schools, and a hospital The jail has accommodation for 
164 prisoners, and the daily average number in 1904 was 79. The 
prisoners are employed in making carpets, blankets, cotton cloth, shoes, 
&c, and in printing, bookbinding, and gardening. The jail costs 
about Rs. 6,200 a year, and the manufactures bring in about Rs. 1,150. 
Of the schools, one is for boys and the other for girls. The former is 
a high school, with a daily average attendance in 1904-5 of 164. The 
hospital has accommodation for 14 in-patients.