Once the land of kings and princes is a state as rugged as tithe Camel and as colourful as the myriad colours of the Rainbow. The traditional home and of the Rajputs, who are known for their Chivalry, valour and heroism, who lived passionately and preferred to die by their unrelenting code rather than submit and live. Ten thousand swords flashing in the desert sun threw a defiant challenge to the might of the Moghal Empire. A rare courage that spanned centuries is Rajasthan. A land of medieval forts and places on hilltops and lakes which cast a spell on the visitor. Sun-drenched Rajasthan the desert land of India, splashed with a myriad flamboyant colours, growing with legend history and Romance. There is so much to see and feel and experience in Rajasthan Rajasthan's Stirring story which is full of heroic deeds, forms a glorious chapter of Indian History. Formerly know as Rajputana, Rajasthan is; land of Rock and desert interspread with fertile tracts, enchanting lakes and jungle. From the human angle state is a country that is still living in its historic past, despite change and modernity. It thus offers the visitor a spectacle of India in a way that cannott be matched by any other state. Home of the Rajputs of ancient lineage, it is the Legendary land of chivalry and knightly proves, is very name means the "Abode of Kings".
Rajasthan is one of india's prime tourist destinations. Nobody leaves here without priceless memories, a bundle of souvenirs, and an address book full of friends.

Running like a spine through Rajasthan the Aravalli Hifls are one of the oldestmountain systems in the world. They form a series of jagged, heavily folded ranges stretching from Mount Abu in the southwest (1,720 m) to Kota and Bundi in the east. Mount Abu is granite but the range has a mixture of rocks, and Rajasthan is the source of the glittering white Makrana marble used in the Taj Mahal.

In the northwest is the arid and forbidding Thar Desert, with its shifting sands dunes and crushingly high summer temperatures. Carol Henderson has written that James Tod, the first British emissary to the region, was constantly reminded that "the names for the region - Marwar, Maroosthali, or Maru-desh, mean 'the land of death'". Before Parition from Pakistan Jaisalmer and Bikaner dominated the overland routes to the west. Jodhpur lies on the edge of this arid tract, the link between the true desert and the semi arid but cultivable regions to the east.

Around Jaipur and Bharatpur, cultivated land is interspersed with rocky outcrops such as those at Amber. In the south the average elevation is higher . Mewar, the southeast region of modern Rajasthan, with Udaipur and Chittorgarh as two of the region's former capitals, is hilly, while around bhratpur in the northeast the landscape forms part of the nearly flat Yamuna drainage basin The Kota and Bundi plateau has good, black, deep and well drained soils inten sively cultivated.