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Shahpura
city
Nickname:  shapra
Country	India
State	Rajasthan
District	Jaipur
Elevation	364 m (1,194 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	28,170
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	303103
Telephone code	01422
Vehicle registration	RJ-52

Shahpura is a city and a municipality in Jaipur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Shahpura has come to mean many destinations because of the many experiences it provides. An erstwhile royal principality located 65 km from the historic city of Jaipur in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. The royal family has caringly restored their ancestral properties and these are now trend-setting and exclusive hotels and resorts in Jaipur.

While the world visits, Shahpura continues to live its own life right outside the gates of the Haveli, in Shahpura, around Moti Mahal and all the way around the countryside to the other villages and fields of Shahpura. Shahpura (Manoharpur) is the head seat of the Shekhawat Clan of Rajput’s and the famous Shekhawati derives its name from it. It is named after the founder ruler of Shekhawat Maha Rao Shekhaji and the Manoharpur Shahpura Family takes pride in being direct descendent — from Maha Rao Shekhaji.

Shahpura was the tazimi Thikana of Shekhawat Sub clan. It was the head seat (Tikai Thikana) of Shekhawat. Near by Shahpura a great holy temple of God Seetaram and the main sant of Triveni Dham is Shri Narayan Das G Maharaj who learned Sanskrit,Jyotish, Vyakaran,nyay,vedant etc. from Pandit Sadhuram Sharma (Jaswantpura) . Narayan Das G Maharaj got divine knowledge from Shri Bhagwan Das G (The great sant). It is dominated by people of Gurjar, Yadav and Jatclan.^[1]

The Rajput kingdoms interacted with the Mughal powers and the colonizing British, to create unique legacies which retained much of the original flavour of the land and integrated the best influences from these outside cultures. Shahpura, according to the Rajputana Gazetteer of 1879, was a large and flourishing town governed by the Zagirdar of Shahpura.

The history of Shekhawati can be traced back to the 14th Century, a number of Muslims clans moved into the area and the towns which developed became important trading posts on the caravan routes emanating from the ports of Gujrat. Rao Shekha was born on September 24, 1433 at the obscure hamlet of ‘Amra Dhabai ki Dhani’ to Mokal Kachawaha and his wife Nirwan. Mokal was a chieftain who held the estate of Nan in fief from the ruler of Amber (Jaipur). The story of Shekha’s birth is rather interesting. Mokal and Nirwan were much troubled as they had no son for several years. They heard about the miraculous powers of the Sheikh Burhan, a Muslim mendicant. They decided to pay the man a visit. After they received the blessings of the Sheikh, a son was born to the couple. In honour of the mendicant, the couple named his son Shekha. In 1459, Mokal died and was succeeded in his estates by Shekha. He was a tazimi sardar of the Maharaja of Amber (Jaipur) and thus was nominally a vassal of that court. Shekha is credited with having founded the town of Amarsar.

As the Mughal Empire fell into decline after the death of Aurangzeb in 1707, the descendants of Rao Shekha, who had already installed themselves in areas to the east of the Aravalli Range, began to encroach on the regions to the north and west. Covering an area of some 30,000 sq km, today this region encompasses the administrative districts of Churu, Jhunjhunu and Sikar, and is known as Shekhawati.The chieftains of the region retained a nominal loyalty to the Rajput states of Jaipur and Amber, who in turn honored them with hereditary titles known as tazimi sardars. It was probably exposure to the courts of jaipur and Amber which encouraged the chieftains, who were known as thakurs, or barons, to commission the first of the thousands of murals which decorated their Hotels, or mansions.By 1732, two of these chieftains, Sardul Singh and Shiv Singh, had overthrown the nawabs of Fatehpur and Jhunjhunu and British Ports at Bombay and Calcutta were able to handle a much greater volume of trade than those at Gujarat.

Rao Shekha Ji from Dhundhar established his own independent kingdom with the capital at Amarsar. He was the first independent ruler. After him, Rao Raimal, Rao Suja and Rao Lunkaran become the rulers of Amarsar. Rao Manohar succeeded his father Rao Lunkaran and founded Manoharpur later renamed Shahpura (The present ruler of Shahpura is the Tikai of Shekhawat subclan). Shekhawats conquered the Jhunjhunu, Fatehpur, Narhar of Kaimkhanis and established their rule on them. Shahpura (Manoharpur) is the head seat of the Shekhawat Clan of Rajput’s and the famous Shekhawati derives its name from it. It is named after the founder ruler of Shekhawat Maha Rao Shekhaji and the Manoharpur Shahpura Family takes pride in being direct descendent — from Maha Rao Shekhaji.

In the 19th century Rao Pratap Singh Ji's Grandson & Kunwar Kalyan Singh Ji’s son Rao Dheer Singhwas, an eminent statesman of Shahpura who reached the Rao Title. He later became Minister and wielded absolute power. His descendant, Maharaj Surendra Singh the present owner gave the buildings at Shahpura a face lift. He also restructured and refurnished their old palatial house into a Hotel known as Shahpura Haveli. One can also see the improvements in the palace, which is 300 years old, as one drives past the town, on the left of the main road towards west of the highway leading to the Hotels.

As of 2001^[update] India census,^[2] Shahpura had a population of 28,170. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Shahpura has an average literacy rate of 58%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 43%. In Shahpura, 17% of the population is under six years of age.

3. http://www.shahpura.com/jaipur-heritage-hotels/

4. http://www.shahpura.com/destination-shahpura-hotels/

5. http://www.shahpura.com/shahpurahaveli/things-to-do/

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