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

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.

Ajmer is surrounded by the Aravalli Mountains.

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.

Ajmer is a manufacturing trade centre.

Pushkar is about 11 kilometres from Ajmer and is an important tourist destination.

It is located on the outskirts of Ajmer.

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.

Ajmer is also home to St. Anselm's H. S.

The Board of Secondary Education for Rajasthan is located in Ajmer.

The population of Ajmer city according census 2011 is 5, 42, 580 positioning Ajmer in top 100 major cities of India and 5th in Rajasthan.

Ajmer-Merwara ( also Ajmere-Merwara ) is a former province of British India in the historical Ajmer region.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

His tomb, in Ajmer, is the Dargah Sharif, a popular shrine and pilgrimage site.

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.

After six decades, this Statue was unearthed by the Jaipur Mayo Alumni Chapter on 29 May 2007 from the premises of the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur and sent to Mayo College, Ajmer, where it is installed now.

Jahangir receives Prince Khurram at Ajmer on his return from the Mewar campaign

The large pillars called " Kose (' Mile ') Minar ", erected at intervals of two miles ( 3 km ) along the entire way between Agra and Ajmer mark the places where the royal pilgrims halted every day.

Akbar had vowed to visit the Chisti dargah, the tomb of Moinuddin Chishti, at Ajmer if he were victorious.

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.

It is reminiscent in style and design of the Arhai-din-ka Jhompra or Ajmer mosque at Ajmer, Rajasthan, also built by Aibak during the same time, also constructed by demolishing earlier temples and a Sanskrit school, at the site.

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

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.

Born on November 20, 1935 in a farmer's family in Rajasthan he studied at Mayo College, Ajmer and Madras University.

* 1008: Mahmud defeats the Indian Confederacy ( Ujjain, Gwalior, Kalinjar, Kannauj, Delhi, and Ajmer ) in battle between Und and Peshawar, and captures the Shahi treasury at Kangra in Himachal Pradesh.

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.

Mayo College was established by the British Raj | British government in 1875 at Ajmer, Rajputana to educate Rajput princes and other nobles.

During the reign of Jaichand of Kannauj, the Chauhans, who starting from their territories in Ajmer had annexed Delhi and were at this time bidding for supremacy in the North under the vigorous rule of Prithviraj Chauhan.

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.

The Saraswati river, which had flown at the time of floods, made the western border of Brahmavarta state, while northern border was formed by Drishadwati river which had flown in along the inner side of Aravali hill from the pot of ' Brahma ' called Pushkar lake near Ajmer in Rajasthan.

From their seat at Ajmer the Mughals ruled Rajputana until the early 18th cent.

Sanghvi was brought up in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) and London and educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, and Mill Hill School, London.

After a short stay in Mumbai, he settled in Ajmer, headquarters of his Guru Swami Dayananda Saraswati, and continued his practice at the British Court in Ajmer.

It rises in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range at an elevation of five hundred fifty metres near Ajmer.

Situated at northwest from Ajmer, the artificial Pushkar Lake created by building a dam is surrounded by deserts and hills on all three sides.

The Pratiharas established the first Rajput kingdom in Marwar in southwestern Rajasthan in the 6th century the greatest kingdom after Ashoka and Harshvardhan, the Chauhans at Ajmer in central Rajasthan, the Solankis in Gujarat, and the Paramaras in Malwa

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

It was during the reign of Emperor Akbar ( 1556 – 1605 ) that Ajmer emerged as one of the most important centers of pilgrimage in India.

Shah Jahan built several important mosques in Delhi, Agra, Ajmer and Lahore.

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.