Ajmer has a population of around 551, 360 in its urban agglomeration and 542, 580 for the city ( 2011 census ), and is located west of Jaipur, the state capital, 274 km from Udaipur, 439 km from Jaisalmer, and 391 km from Delhi.

An airport near Ajmer ( KISHANGARH ) has been proposed by the Government of Rajasthan.

Ajmer Railway Station has been earmarked for investment under the Public-Private Partnership ( PPP ) scheme.

Ajmer also has engineering workshops, re-rolling mills, electronic component plants etc.

According to the 2011 India census, Ajmer district has a population of 2, 584, 913, which was made up of 1, 325, 911 males and 1, 259, 002 females.

Mandsaur has direct trains for Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Agra, Kota, Indore, Ujjain, Bhopal, Ratlam.

It has a diverse culture, and includes the Hindu pilgrimage centers of Char Dham, Haridwar, Mathura, Allahabad and Varanasi, the Buddhist Mahabodhi Temple, the Sikh Golden Temple and the Muslim pilgrimage destination of Ajmer, as well as world heritage sites such as the Valley of flowers, Khajuraho, Bhimbetka Caves, Qutb Minar and the Taj Mahal.

Pushkar Lake around which the Pushkar town has developed is in the Ajmer district in the state of Rajasthan, India amidst the Aravalli range of hills.

Ajmer is at an important railway junction with Broad gauge lines to Jaipur Marwar, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Delhi, and Mumbai and then onwards to Bangalore.

Ajmer is notable for its public schools formed in accordance with the precepts of English public schools, amongst which are Mayo College, founded by the British Raj in 1875 to educate the children of Rajputana's royalty and nobles.

It is well connected with metro and major cities of India like Bilaspur, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Vishakhapatnam, Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Patna, Amritsar, Nagpur, Gorakhpur, Pune, Raipur, Cuttack, Puri, Rourkela, Durg, Ajmer, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Jammu, etc.

The European-oriented Mayo College at Ajmer was founded by him for the education of young Indian chiefs, with £ 70, 000 being subscribed by the chiefs themselves.

After a brief stay at Lahore, he reached Ajmer along with Sultan Shahāb-ud-Din Muhammad Ghori, and settled down there.

On May 15, 1949, it was united with certain other princely states and the territory of Ajmer to form the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan.

He defaulted upon the payments, imprisoned Sebuktigin's collectors, and assembled an army allied with forces from the kingdoms of Delhi, Ajmer, Kalinjar, and Kannauj, which was defeated in battle with Sebuktigin's Ghaznavids at the banks of the Neelum.

Flag of Rajput In northern India in the eleventh century, Rajputana was ruled by a number of dynasties, Chief of these were the Pratiharas, who ruled at Kanauj ; the Paramaras of Malwa ; the Rahavers of Tarangagadh ; the Chauhans of Ajmer ; the Solankis of Anhilwara in Gujarat ; the Guhilots with the Sesodia sept of Udaipur ( Mewar ); the Rahtors of Marwar ( Jodhpur ); and the Kachwaha clan of Jaipur.

Who soever edit the above paragraph about the death of Gohri that is with immaturity and without any single " Outsider written proof " perhapes he did not read the following paragraphs because In of the Ghurid Empire & days and Death it is clearly mentioned that 1-Muhammad Ghori marched towards Ajmer and appointed Qub-ud-din Aibak as his Naib, 2-Muḥammad Ghori returned west to Ghazni to deal with the threat to his western frontiers from the unrest in Iran 3-he had to travel to Lahore to crush a revolt 4-After settling the affairs in the Punjab.

In Ajmer, Ajit Singh carved out a vast territory and allied himself with the renegade Marathas.

In 1883, a metre gauge railway system, initially linking Delhi with Agra, Jaipur and Ajmer, was established.

He arrived at Ajmer, where he met the great Sufi mystic and scholar, Pir Khawaja Gharibnawaz Muinuddin Hasan Chisty, who is credited with much of the spread of Islam in India.

His book Leela, co-authored with Ajmer Rode is more than 1000 pages long and is considered one of the most important Punjabi poetry works of the twentieth century.

* Leela-1999 ( with Ajmer Rode )

Credits given for modern additions to the building of ghats and the renovation / construction of temples go to Maharaja Man Singh I of Amber for the Raj Ghat and Man temple ; Rana Pratap for the Varaha temple ; Daulat Rao Scindia for Kot Tirth Ghat, the Marathas-Anaji Scindia to the Koteshwar Mahadev temple and Govind Rao, the Maratha governor of Ajmer for Shiva Ghat ; to the British rule for combining the religious pilgrimage with a cattle fair to generate taxes for improving the lake and its surroundings ; and gifting of the Jaipur Ghat and the Main Palace on the ghat in 1956 by the Maharaja of Jaipur.

As in Ajmer, it is said that whoever comes here with a prayer on her / his lips, does not go away disappointed.

In March 1878, he was appointed Governor-General's Agent for Rajputana and Chief Commissioner of Ajmer, in charge of relations with the Rajput princes, by whom he was respected and admired, not least because he had survived an encounter with a tiger.

Dasharatha Sharma writes in his book Early Chauhan Dynasties that the Johiyas had matrimonial relations with the Chauhans of Ajmer.

Despite the party's loss, Telegdi continued to enjoy immense support in his riding, fending off the Conservative challenger Ajmer Mandur by over 12000 votes.

The Kingdom of Ajmer was then given over to Golā, on condition that he send regular tributes to the Ghurids.

Part of the Ajmer region, the territory of the future province was ceded to the British by Daulat Rao Sindhia as part of a treaty dated June 25, 1818.

Ajmer () is the 5th largest city in Rajasthan and is the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District.

Ajmer is surrounded by the Aravalli Mountains.

According to Rajputana Gazetteer, Ajmer was held by Chechi Gurjars until about 700 years ago.

Ajmer ( Sanskrit Ajayameru ) was founded in the late 7th century A. D. by Ajayraj singh Chauhan.

The Chauhan dynasty ruled Ajmer in spite of repeated invasions by Turkic marauders from Central Asia across the north of India.

Ajmer was conquered by Muhammad of Ghor, founder of the Delhi Sultanate, in 1193.

Ajmer remained subject to Delhi until 1365 when it was captured by the ruler of Mewar.

In 1509, control of Ajmer was disputed between the Maharajas of Mewar and Marwar unitil it was conquered by the Marwar in 1532.

In 1818 the British forced the Marathas to cede the city for 50, 000 rupees whereupon it became part of the province of Ajmer-Merwara, which consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara and were physically separated by the territory of the Rajputana Agency.

Ajmer-Merwara remained a province of India until 1950, when it became the Ajmer State.

Ajmer state became part of Rajasthan state on 1 November 1956.

Ajmer is surrounded by the Aravalli Mountains.

Ajmer is protected from the Thar desert by the massive rocks of Nagpathar range.

Ajmer is well connected to the major cities of India by land and rail.

There are air conditioned bus services from Delhi, Jaipur and other important cities to Ajmer.

Ajmer is a manufacturing trade centre.