Deshnok
Town south of Bikaner; seat of the Karni Mata temple, tutelary shrine of the Bikawat Rathores.
Seventeenth ruler of Bikaner, 1787–1828. Took the throne through the disputed deaths of 1787, recaptured Bhatner as Hanumangarh, provoked a general thakur revolt, and concluded the 1818 treaty bringing Bikaner under British protection.
Founder of Bikaner State and of the city of Bikaner. Son of Rao Jodha of Marwar; rode out of Jodhpur in 1465 and built a kingdom of 40,000 square miles in the Jangaldesh desert.
Third Rao of Bikaner, 1505–1526. Consolidated and expanded the young kingdom; celebrated for his liberality as the 'Karna of the Kaliyug'. Killed with three of his sons at the Battle of Dhosi.
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