Hotels in
Rajasthan - Hotel Shikha
The hotel provides all major facilities and
services that may be required by the holiday
or a business traveler to Jaipur. We are
continuously improving and adding new
services to make you stay in Jaipur a
memorable one.
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Large spacious airy rooms
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Direct Telephone
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Color Television with cable
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Laundry Services
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Doctor on Call
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Local tour services
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24 hour Room service
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Hot and cold running water
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Air conditioned rooms
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Travel desk and Ticketing
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Accepts all major credit cards
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Home and food on request
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Jogging Track and Gym in close vicinity.
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Internet access high speed.
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Rajasthan
History
Rajasthan is the
north-western region of India, and has
remain independent from the great empires.
Buddhism failed to make substantial inroad
here; the Mauryan empire (321-184 BC), whose
most renowned emperor, Ashoka, Converted to
Buddhism in 261 BC, had minimal impact in
Rajasthan, However, there are Buddhist caves
and stupas (Buddhist Shrines) at Jhalawar,
in Southern Rajasthan.
Ancient Hindu scriptural
epics make reference to sites in present-day
Rajasthan. The Holy Pilgrimage site of
Pushkar is mentioned in both the Mahabharata
and Ramayana. The Rajputs of Rajasthan
were the descendants of the Kshatriyas or
warriors of Vedic India. The emergence of
the Rajput warrior clans was in the 6th and
7th centuries. Rajputs ancestry can be
divided into two: the "solar" or suryavanshi-those
descended from Rama, the hero of the epic
Ramayana, and the "lunar" or chandravanshi,
who claimed descent from Krishana, the hero
of the epic Mahabharata. Later a third clan
was added, the agnikula or fire-born, said
to have emerged from the flames of a
sacrificial fire on Mt Abu.
It has been accepted that
the Rajputs were divided into thirty-six
races and twenty-one kingdoms. The Rajput
clans gave rise to dynasties like Sisodias
of Mewar (Udaipur), the Kachwahas of Amber (Jaipur),
the Rathors of Marwar (Jodhpur & Bikaner),
the Hadas of Jhalwawar, Kota & Bundi, the
Bhattis of Jaisalmer, the Shekhawats of
Shekhawati and the Chauhans of Ajmer. |