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

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

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

Ajmer, a view from Taragarh Fort

The province consisted of the districts of Ajmer and Merwara, which were physically separated from the rest of British India by the many princely states of Rajputana.

The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.

The north-eastern monsoon sweeps up the valley of the Ganges from the Bay of Bengal and waters the northern part of Rajasthan, but hardly penetrates farther west than the longitude of Ajmer.

* January 10 – Sir Thomas Roe, emissary from the court of King James I of England, presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, in Ajmer Fort, thus opening the door to the British presence in India.

He studied in Mayo College, Ajmer in India from 1922 to 1927 in Urdu and English.

But from all the network of Chishtī dargāhs the Ajmer dargāh took on the special distinction of being the ' mother ' dargah of them all.

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.

Apart from Chalukya express, only a handful of non-weekly trains like Delhi-Bangalore Karnataka Sampark Kranti ( bi-weekly ), Suvarnajayanti ( Weekly ), Pune-Ernakulam ( weekly ) and Ajmer / Jodhpur-Bangalore bi-weekly express have been introduced in the last 15 years.

* ( ii ) A reference to the train from Ajmer to Mhow in Chapter 1 of The Man Who would be King and

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.

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.

An Invitation Cricket Tournament was organized recently, teams from Delhi, Lucknow and Ajmer participated in it.

It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer.

* Opportunities: " The Mayo College, Ajmer " from The Hindu, National Newspaper dated Jun 09, 2004

His return detoured across the Thar Desert to avoid the armies of Ajmer and other allies on his return.

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.

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.

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

It was built by King Ajāypāl Chauhān on the summit of Tārāgaṛh Hill and overlooks Ajmer.

Maqbara Shaikh Husain, houses the tomb of Khwaja Husain Chishty Rehamatullah Alaih ( Shaikh Husain Ajmeri ) who was the Peer of Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Emperor Akbar's Time, He was the great grandson of Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishty Rehmatullah Alaih, his tomb was built in 1637-1638 by Khwaja Alauddin Chishty and Sajjadanashin Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin

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.

She later visited Ajmer, following the example set by her great-grandfather Akbar.

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.