Pali Rajasthan: Encyclopedia II - Pali Rajasthan - History

Pali Rajasthan - History

The Pratihara dynasty of Rajputs, also known as the Gurjara-Pratiharas, established a kingdom in Marwar in the 6th century which included Pali. They ruled from Mandor, near modern Jodhpur.

In the early 13th century, the Rathore Rajput clan fled west from the kingdom of Kannauj in northern India, which they had lost to the Sultanate of Delhi. The Rathor family chronicles relate that Siyaji or Sheoji, grandson of Jai Chandra, the last Gahadvala Rathore king of Kannauj, came to Marwar on a pilgrimage to Dwarka in Gujarat, and on halting at the town of Pali he and his followers settled there to protect the Brahmin community from the raids of marauding bands. Rao Chanda, tenth in succession from Siyaji, finally wrested control of Marwar from the Pratiharas. His son and successor, Rao Jodha, moved the capital to the city of Jodhpur, which he founded in 1459. Pali remained a part of the Marwar kingdom until 1949, when the last ruling Maharaja acceded to newly-Independent India.

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