# Sources, limits and image credits

**Checked:** 9 August 2026, Asia/Kolkata
**About this page:** these are the sources behind our account of Jodhpur, from arriving and moving through the city to Rao Jodha’s political setting, the living city in 2026, and the official 2031 planning horizon. It is a selective guide, not a live transport service, exhaustive academic history, demographic forecast, or claim that every proposal has been delivered.

## How to read the source notes

- `Verified` means the linked source supports the statement as written on the date shown above.
- `Period source` means a historic publication shows how the subject was reported at that time; its judgments are not adopted as our own.
- `Scheduled` identifies a future event that had not happened when checked.
- `Plan forecast` identifies a value used by an approved planning document. It is not an observed count.
- `Proposed` identifies a land use, facility, corridor, or scheme named by a plan. It does not establish funding, construction, completion, or outcome.
- `Uncertain / omitted` identifies a familiar claim that this project intentionally does not state as fact.

## Core historical chronology

| Date | What we say | Source | How to read it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1384–1428 | Rao Chunda established Mandore as the Rathore capital, forming the political setting inherited by Rao Jodha. | [Mehrangarh Museum Trust — History](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/history/) | Verified |
| 12 May 1459 | Official commemoration dates Jodhpur’s foundation to this day; Rao Jodha began the new fort on a higher isolated rock south of Mandore, and the town below took his name. | [Ministry of Tourism — Jodhpur Foundation Day](https://utsav.gov.in/view-event/jodhpur-foundation-day), [MMT — History](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/history/) | Verified |
| 1544–45 | Sher Shah Sur’s forces captured Mehrangarh for roughly a year; Rao Maldeo strengthened the recovered fort. | [MMT — Architecture](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/architecture/) | Verified |
| 1562–81 | A disputed succession was followed by Mughal intervention and Chandrasen’s prolonged resistance away from the capital. | [IGNCA — Rajasthan political chronology](https://ignca.gov.in/coilnet/rj037.htm), [MMT — Architecture](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/architecture/) | Verified |
| 1581–1678 | Four generations of Marwar rulers served as Mughal allies and imperial chiefs. The relationship is presented as negotiated service, not a single unchanging condition. | [MMT — History](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/history/) | Verified |
| 1678–1707 | Jaswant Singh’s succession crisis and the status of his posthumous heir Ajit Singh triggered sustained Rathore resistance to Aurangzeb’s government. | [IGNOU — Mughal and Rajput States, Unit 11](https://www.egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/116363/1/Unit-11.pdf), [MMT — Architecture](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/architecture/) | Verified |
| 1707–24 | Ajit Singh’s restoration opened a major phase of palace construction and remodelling at Mehrangarh. | [MMT — Architecture](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/architecture/), [MMT — Period Rooms](https://www.mehrangarh.org/mehrangarh-2/museum/period-rooms/) | Verified |
| 1730 | Rajasthan Tourism records Amrita Devi and 362 other villagers killed while resisting the cutting of khejri trees at Khejarli. | [Rajasthan Tourism — Jodhpur](https://www.tourism.rajasthan.gov.in/jodhpur.html), [Ministry of Environment — State of Environment Report 2009](https://moef.gov.in/uploads/2017/08/home-SoE-Report-2009.pdf) | Verified to official summaries |
| 6 January 1818 | A treaty placed Jodhpur under British protection and paramountcy. | [Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art — treaty record](https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/F1999.17/), [1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica — Jodhpur](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Jodhpur) | Verified; second link is a period source |
| 21 August 1857–February 1858 | The Jodhpur Legion mutinied, joined Kushal Singh of Auwa, and was eventually defeated after a renewed British assault. | [IGNCA — Rajasthan in the uprising of 1857](https://ignca.gov.in/coilnet/rj157.htm) | Verified |
| 1881–86 | Railway construction began in 1881, the first section opened in 1882, and the Jodhpur workshop followed in 1886. | [North Western Railway — Overview of Jodhpur Division](https://nwr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1308229227325-OVERVIEW.pdf) | Verified |
| 1899–1900 | Severe famine and relief shaped the region; demographic figures shown by historic references are treated as period reporting. | [1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica — Jodhpur](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Jodhpur) | Period source |
| 1920s–42 | Jayanarayan Vyas and Marwar political organisations pressed for representation and responsible government. | [IGNCA — Political awakening in Rajasthan](https://ignca.gov.in/coilnet/rj033.htm), [Rajasthan Legislative Assembly — history](https://assembly.rajasthan.gov.in/Containers/Overview/RajLegislature.aspx) | Verified |
| 1929–44 | Mehrangarh Museum Trust’s construction range for Umaid Bhawan; Rajasthan Tourism connects the commission with famine-relief employment. | [MMT — Museum Trails](https://www.mehrangarh.org/explore/museum-trails/), [Rajasthan Tourism — Jodhpur](https://www.tourism.rajasthan.gov.in/jodhpur.html) | Bounded because official dates vary slightly |
| August 1947 | Jodhpur executed an Instrument of Accession to India, initially concerning defence, external affairs, and communications. | [Government of India — White Paper on Indian States](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/White_Paper_on_Indian_States_%281950%29) | Verified month; exact day omitted |
| 30 March / 29 August 1949 | Jodhpur joined Greater Rajasthan; the Rajasthan High Court was inaugurated at Jodhpur later that year. | [Rajasthan Legislative Assembly](https://assembly.rajasthan.gov.in/Containers/Overview/RajLegislature.aspx), [Rajasthan High Court — institutional history](https://hcraj.nic.in/hcraj/Paper-Speech/history.pdf) | Verified |
| 1 November 1956 | State reorganisation gave Rajasthan substantially its current territorial form; Jodhpur remained the High Court’s principal seat. | [Government of Rajasthan — Formation of Rajasthan](https://forest.rajasthan.gov.in/content/raj/forest/en/resources/forest-statistics/general-introduction1/formation-of-rajasthan.html), [Rajasthan High Court](https://hcraj.nic.in/hcraj/Paper-Speech/history.pdf) | Verified |
| 1972–2026 | The Mehrangarh Museum Trust was established in 1972 and began functioning in 1974; the 70-hectare Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park was created in 2006. | [MMT — About](https://www.mehrangarh.org/about-us/), [MMT — Desert Rock Park](https://www.mehrangarh.org/visit/rao-jodha-desert-rock-park/) | Verified |

## Sources for Jodhpur today

| Data year / checked date | Claim and geography | Source | Boundary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2011 / checked 2026-08-09 | Jodhpur Urban Agglomeration: 1,138,300; Jodhpur including outgrowths: 1,056,191; Jodhpur Municipal Corporation: 1,033,756. | [Census of India — A-04 Class I](https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/42876), [Jodhpur Primary Census Abstract](https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/6304) | These are not 2026 population counts. |
| 2026 schedule / checked 2026-08-09 | The next population enumeration is scheduled for February 2027 with reference date 1 March 2027. Rajasthan’s 2026 houselisting does not yield a new population count. | [PIB — Census 2027](https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2246847&lang=2&reg=48), [Census India — state schedule](https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/sites/default/files/2026-04/SE_HLO_Period_English.pdf) | Scheduled / process status. |
| 2026 / checked 2026-08-09 | Rajasthan’s operational map has 41 districts across 7 divisions. Phalodi is separate from present-day Jodhpur district. | [Rajasthan e-Mitra RFP, p. 15](https://emitra.rajasthan.gov.in/assets/footer-pdf/RFPEmitraLSP2025BeforePrebid08072025.pdf), [live Rajasthan district list](https://rgavp.rajasthan.gov.in/Master/GetDistrictList) | Older Jodhpur district figures include areas now in Phalodi. |
| 2026 / checked 2026-08-09 | Mehrangarh operates as a museum and cultural institution interpreting collections and period rooms. | [Mehrangarh Museum](https://www.mehrangarh.org/visit/mehrangarh-museum/) | Current institutional role. |
| 2006–2026 / checked 2026-08-09 | Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park restores roughly 70 hectares of degraded rocky land beside the fort. | [MMT — Desert Rock Park](https://www.mehrangarh.org/visit/rao-jodha-desert-rock-park/) | Current institutional description. |
| 2025–26 / checked 2026-08-09 | Rajasthan’s Panch Gaurav programme identifies wooden furniture as Jodhpur’s district product and Mehrangarh as its selected tourist destination. | [Rajasthan Economic Review 2025–26](https://finance.rajasthan.gov.in/docs/budget/statebudget/2026-2027/Economicreviewe.pdf), [Rising Rajasthan — handicrafts](https://rising.rajasthan.gov.in/handlooms-and-handicrafts) | State policy positioning, not a complete economic census. |
| 2024 data / published 2025 | Rajasthan Tourism reported 2,506,560 domestic and 203,945 foreign tourist visits to Jodhpur City. | [Rajasthan Tourism — June 2025 coverage report](https://www.tourism.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/rajasthan-tourism/english/pdf/press-release-pdf/coverage-report-June-2025.pdf) | Department-reported visits, not necessarily unique people. |
| Scheduled 24–25 October 2026 / checked 2026-08-09 | Rajasthan Tourism schedules the Marwar Festival around regional music, dance, and narrative traditions. | [Rajasthan Tourism — fairs and festivals](https://www.tourism.rajasthan.gov.in/fairs-and-festivals.html) | Scheduled, not completed. |
| 2026 / checked 2026-08-09 | Jodhpur is the principal seat of the Rajasthan High Court. | [Rajasthan High Court](https://hcraj.nic.in/hcraj/) | Current institutional status. |
| 2008–2026 / checked 2026-08-09 | IIT Jodhpur was established in 2008 and operates from an 852-acre permanent campus. | [IIT Jodhpur — introduction](https://www.iitj.ac.in/main/en/introduction) | Current institution, founding date and stated campus area. |
| 2012–2026 / checked 2026-08-09 | AIIMS Jodhpur was established under the national tertiary-care and medical-education programme. | [AIIMS Jodhpur — annual report](https://www.aiimsjodhpur.edu.in/annual%20report/ENG%20-%20Annual%20Report%2023-24%20%288%29%20%281%29%20%281%29.pdf) | Current institution; no volatile activity counts used. |

## Sources for Jodhpur 2031

The Jodhpur 2031 material describes an approved planning horizon, not a guaranteed future. We read the full 235-page report from the Jodhpur Development Authority portal together with the authority’s Master Plan and zonal-plan pages on 9 August 2026.

| Document state / horizon | Site claim | Primary source | Boundary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Approved 18 February 2021 / horizon 2031 | The Jodhpur Master Development Plan 2013–2031 exists as an approved regional planning framework. | [JDA — Master Plan 2031 portal](https://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/raj/udh/jda--jodhpur/en/master-plan/master-plan-2031.html), [official plan PDF](https://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/lsgs/lsg-jodhpur/pdf/MPLAN.pdf), [Draft Zonal Development Plan — Nagar Nigam South, pp. 7–9](https://lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/lsgs/lsg-jodhpur/Layout/1/nagar%20nigam%20south%20report.pdf) | Approval establishes the framework, not delivery of every proposal. |
| 2011 baseline / 2031 horizon | The report uses a Jodhpur Region baseline of 1,740,725 in 2011 and marks 3,100,000 for 2031 as estimated. | [JDA — Master Development Plan 2031 report, document pp. 81–83](https://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/lsgs/lsg-jodhpur/pdf/MPLAN.pdf) | `3.1 million` applies to the wider planning region, not only Jodhpur city; it is a plan forecast, not a census result. |
| 2031 plan structure | The plan distinguishes U1, U2, U3/highway corridors, and rural land, while also identifying water bodies, hilly conservation, forest/plantation, reserves, and other land uses. | [JDA — Master Development Plan 2031 report, document pp. 87–89](https://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/lsgs/lsg-jodhpur/pdf/MPLAN.pdf), [JDA — proposed land-use map](https://jda.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/development-authority/jda-jodhpur/pdf/master-plan-2031/LANDUSE%20PLAN%202031%20DRAFT.pdf) | The site’s rings are an original schematic. They do not reproduce the official map or its boundaries. |
| 2031 infrastructure standards | The report translates its forecast into stated requirements for water supply, sewerage, electricity, solid waste, education, and health facilities. | [JDA — Master Development Plan 2031 report, document pp. 83–86](https://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/lsgs/lsg-jodhpur/pdf/MPLAN.pdf) | Requirements are planning standards, not evidence of existing 2026 capacity or completed 2031 provision. |
| 2031 special proposals | Knowledge and health-care city, corporate park, sports city, and freight city are listed as special schemes. | [JDA — Master Development Plan 2031 report, document p. 88](https://www.lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/lsgs/lsg-jodhpur/pdf/MPLAN.pdf) | Proposed; no completion claim is made. |
| Current detail-planning state / checked 2026-08-09 | JDA publishes a mixture of zonal reports and material explicitly labelled draft. The Nagar Nigam South report says zonal plans detail and phase the Master Plan. | [JDA — Zonal Plan portal](https://lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/raj/udh/jda--jodhpur/en/master-plan/sector-plan-maps.html), [Draft Zonal Development Plan — Nagar Nigam South, pp. 22–24](https://lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/udh/lsgs/lsg-jodhpur/Layout/1/nagar%20nigam%20south%20report.pdf) | The published documents do not show that every proposal has been delivered. |

## Claims intentionally not stated as facts

- Hermit curses, a live burial at the fort foundation, and a foundation blessing by Karni Mata are devotional or folkloric traditions with variable accounts.
- Solar descent and direct descent from Kannauj’s rulers are not presented as established genealogy.
- Mehrangarh was not “completed in 1459,” did not remain permanently unconquered, and is not a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- The Mughal–Marwar relationship is not reduced to a single oppression/resistance story.
- No sensationalised “blank sheet” accession story or exact August 1947 accession day is used without the original signed instrument.
- The Blue City label is a current public identity, but no single caste, cooling, termite, or other explanation for blue-painted houses is declared definitive.
- No “2026 population,” current second-largest-city ranking, tourism “unique visitors,” or superlative such as “world’s largest” is invented.
- No “2031 population” is stated as an observed future fact. The 3.1 million value remains labelled as the Master Development Plan’s regional forecast.
- No plan proposal—including knowledge and health-care city, corporate park, sports city, freight city, new corridors, or facility counts—is described as funded, built, completed, or guaranteed without a separate source showing delivery.
- Jodhpur is the city and former capital; Marwar is the wider region and historical polity.

## How the eras can be read together

The “Marwar Continuum” brings together statements already supported in the three tables above. Placing them beside one another does not turn a visual connection into historical proof.

| Recurring theme | Historical source | Present-day source | 2031 plan source | What the connection does not prove |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Land and defence | Mandore, the higher isolated rock, and Mehrangarh’s accumulated fortification. | Mehrangarh’s museum role and the Desert Rock Park’s restoration of degraded rocky land. | Hilly and rocky conservation areas, water bodies, forest/plantation land, reserves, rural land, and urban uses in the regional plan. | An unchanged land regime, successful conservation outcome, or exact spatial overlap. |
| Water and capacity | Reservoirs, lakes, stepwells, catchments, and channels as historic arid-city infrastructure. | Material and interpretive survival of water places; no claim that they supply the current city. | Water-supply and sewerage requirements derived from the plan forecast. | Current utility performance, funded works, construction, or delivered 2031 capacity. |
| Power and public institution | The 1818 treaty, 1947 accession, and 1949 integration as distinct political transitions. | Museum, High Court, IIT Jodhpur, and AIIMS Jodhpur as distinct current institutions. | Public-facility requirements and a proposed knowledge and health-care city. | Direct institutional descent, governance quality, proposal delivery, or public benefit. |
| Movement and making | Railway construction, the 1882 opening, and the 1886 workshop. | Wooden furniture as the state programme’s identified district product. | Highway-corridor land use and the proposed freight city. | A complete economic history, a causal rail-to-furniture thesis, or a completed logistics project. |
| Population and geography | Settlement expanding beyond the fortified nucleus. | The 2011 Jodhpur Urban Agglomeration count; no official 2026 substitute. | The 3.1 million estimate for the wider Jodhpur Region. | Comparability between differently bounded populations or a future census result. |

Reading across eras means that these records illuminate recurring civic questions. It does not mean that the system remained unchanged, that one era caused the next, that current institutions inherit former authority, or that the approved plan resolves the historical problem it names.

## Sources for arriving and moving

Schedules, fares, seats, stops, live running, queues, route access and vehicle availability can change. These links identify the responsible official enquiry surfaces; they do not turn a dated travel guide into a live transport service.

| Checked date | What the source supports | Source | What it does not establish |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-08-09 | Rajasthan Tourism gives a broad official orientation that Jodhpur can be approached by air, rail and road. | [Rajasthan Tourism — Jodhpur](https://www.tourism.rajasthan.gov.in/jodhpur.html) | A current route, timetable, fare, seat, terminal, platform, stop, road condition or last-mile arrangement. |
| 2026-08-09 | Airports Authority of India identifies Jodhpur Airport and provides its official airport information surface. | [AAI — Jodhpur Airport](https://www.aai.aero/en/airports/jodhpur) | A permanent flight route, airline timetable, fare, terminal condition, queue, assistance or successful connection. |
| 2026-08-09 | AAI’s transport table currently marks general taxi, pre-paid taxi and car rental as available at Jodhpur Airport. | [AAI — transport at Jodhpur Airport](https://www.aai.aero/en/airports/transport/jodhpur) | Today’s queue, price, operating window, destination coverage, vehicle standard, accessible fit or service guarantee. A blank table cell is not treated as proof either way. |
| 2026-08-09 | Indian Railways provides official enquiries for trains between stations, availability, fare and reserved schedule, with National Train Enquiry System access for live running. | [Indian Railways — Passenger Reservation Enquiry](https://www.indianrail.gov.in/enquiry/StaticPages/StaticEnquiry.jsp?StaticPage=index.html) | A guaranteed seat, punctual arrival, platform, coach condition, station assistance, porter, exit or onward vehicle. |
| 2026-08-09 | RSRTC provides date-specific origin, destination and service enquiry, with stop, fare and availability functions for its services. | [RSRTC — online booking](https://www.rsrtconline.rajasthan.gov.in/) | Every private service, local city bus, permanent stop, luggage handling, vehicle condition, punctuality, accessibility or safe last mile. |

## Sources for food and drink

The dish pages distinguish public recognition from a universal recipe or a shop recommendation. Ingredients, temperature, cross-contact, price, availability and storage still belong to the maker and serving date.

| Checked date | What the source supports | Source | What it does not establish |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-08-09 | The Ministry of Tourism currently presents mirchi vada, pyaaz kachori, mawa kachori and makhaniya lassi as foods associated with Jodhpur and gives broad ingredient descriptions. | [Incredible India — Exploring the Gastronomic Delights of Jodhpur](https://www.incredibleindia.gov.in/en/rajasthan/jodhpur/a-lip-smacking-culinary-journey-of-jodhpur) | Invention, one authentic recipe, current shop quality, hours, prices, dietary suitability, safe handling or a preferred vendor. |
| 2026-08-09 | Keep clean; separate raw and cooked; cook thoroughly; keep food at safe temperatures; use safe water and raw materials. | [World Health Organization — Five keys to safer food](https://www.who.int/activities/promoting-safe-food-handling/five-key-to-safer-food) | Inspection, certification, ranking or a guarantee for any individual Jodhpur counter or serving. |

## What the 3D relief represents

The “ridge → fort → water → city → living Jodhpur → 2031 planning horizon → continuum” chapter is an original explanatory diagram. It is not a GIS surface, archaeological model, fort plan, measured street map, official land-use map, transport network, or reconstruction of Jodhpur at any historical date.

- The elevated ridge, fortified nucleus, water infrastructure, urban accumulation, current institutional layer, and existence of a regional 2031 planning framework are relationships supported by the sources above.
- Terrain heights, wall forms, water shapes, camera positions, and building locations are part of a designed visual composition; they are not measurements.
- The final rings, corridors, and points are original shorthand for layered regional planning. Their shapes, spacing, direction, and locations do not encode official JDA geography.
- The final paths and nodes represent the five themes listed above. They do not represent roads, rail alignments, water pipes, administrative boundaries, institution locations, migrations, causal flows, or construction status.
- The abstract geometry makes no claim about exact scale, orientation, architecture, neighbourhood extent, or chronology.
- The model contains no generated representation of Rao Jodha, a battle, a historic inhabitant, or an undocumented event. Documentary history remains carried by the real licensed photographs and semantic text.

## Image credits

All photographs are documentary uses. Local files are resized WebP adaptations for web delivery; crops are applied by CSS at display time. No historical scene or person has been generated with AI.

Feature pages use additional 900-pixel versions of several licensed originals—including the four food photographs—so they load more efficiently on smaller screens. These versions add no new subject, crop, creator, source, or licence claim.

| Local file | Subject / creator | Source page | Licence | Adaptation note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `assets/photos/hero-mehrangarh-city.webp` | Mehrangarh, Jodhpur and Ranisar Lake — Dlinemedia | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFort_w_Jodhpurze.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized, compressed; shader and CSS colour treatment at runtime. |
| `assets/photos/rao-jodha-statue.webp` | Mehrangarh and Rao Jodha statue — Sreesarkar | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMehrangarh_Fort_and_statue_of_Rao_Jodha_as_viewed_from_Jaswant_Thada.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/mandore-gardens.webp` | Mandore Gardens — Surbhighoghari | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJodhpur_Mandore_Gardens.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/blue-city-panorama.webp` | Blue City panorama — Lokankara | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABlue_City%2C_Jodhpur.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/phool-mahal.webp` | Phool Mahal — Dinesh Valke | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APhool_Mahal%2C_one_of_the_grand_rooms_%2844894013144%29.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/mehrangarh-jharokha.webp` | Mehrangarh stone carving — Güldem Üstün | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AIndia_%28Jodhpur-Mehrangarh_Palace%29_Fine_stone_carving_decorations_of_the_windows._%2832228589744%29.jpg) | [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/jaswant-thada.webp` | Jaswant Thada — Kumaranshu26 | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJaswant_thada_view.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/umaid-bhawan.webp` | Umaid Bhawan Palace — Yann Forget | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AUmaid_Bhawan%2C_Jodhpur.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/ghanta-ghar.webp` | Ghanta Ghar — Vyacheslav Argenberg | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJodhpur%2C_India%2C_Jodhpur_Clock_Tower_%28Ghanta_Ghar%29.jpg) | [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/sardar-market.webp` | Sardar Market — Güldem Üstün | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AIndia_%28Jodhpur%29_Colorful_Bazaar_at_city_center_%2832918001792%29.jpg) | [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) | Resized and compressed; editorial use, no endorsement implied. |
| `assets/photos/toorji-stepwell.webp` | Toorji Ka Jhalra — Dr. Raju Kasambe | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AToorji_Ka_Jhalra_Toorji%27s_Step_Well_Jodhpur_DSCN0671_%281%29_11.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/ranisar-lake.webp` | Ranisar Lake and fort wall — Jakub Hałun | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARanisar_Lake%2C_Jodhpur%2C_20191209_1646_7719.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed. |
| `assets/photos/mirchi-bada.webp` | Mirchi bada served in Jodhpur — Pyaaz Kachori | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMirchi_Bada_from_Jodhpur_1.jpg) | [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) | Resized and compressed; credit retained voluntarily; no shop endorsement. |
| `assets/photos/pyaaz-kachori.webp` | Jodhpuri pyaaz kachori with tamarind chutney — PabIoChocobar | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJodhpuri_Kanda%28Pyaaz%29_Kachori_with_tamarind_chutney.jpg) | [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) | Resized and compressed; credit retained voluntarily. |
| `assets/photos/makhaniya-lassi.webp` | Creamy lassi served in Jodhpur — Saksham2294 | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFamous_Lassi.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed; no shop endorsement or recipe claim. |
| `assets/photos/khoya-kachori.webp` | Khoya kachori — Prasant iitd | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AKhoya_Kachodi.JPG) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed; not documented as a Jodhpur serving. |
| `assets/photos/jodhpur-airport-interior.webp` | Check-in and baggage-screening area at Jodhpur Airport in 2012 — PDXDUS | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACheck_in_area_and_Baggage_screening_at_Jodhpur_Airport.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) | Resized and compressed; the historic interior does not establish the present layout, desks, airlines, facilities, queues or assistance. |
| `assets/photos/jodhpur-railway-station.webp` | Jodhpur railway station exterior in 2023 — Kishlay RF | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJodhpur_railway_station.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed; it does not establish today’s platform, entrance, lift, train, timetable, crowd or onward transport. |
| `assets/photos/jodhpur-traffic-buses.webp` | School buses and mixed Jodhpur traffic in 2018 — Wolfgang Sauber | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJodhpur_-_Verkehr_2.jpg) | [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) | Resized and compressed; credit retained voluntarily. The image is not evidence of an identified intercity service or current city-bus route. |
| `assets/photos/jodhpur-auto-rickshaw.webp` | Auto-rickshaw in a Jodhpur street scene in 2016 — Clément Bardot | [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAuto_rickshaw%2C_Jodhpur.jpg) | [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) | Resized and compressed; it does not establish today’s availability, price, metering, app coverage, route access, luggage fit or safety. |

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