KISHANGARH  , a native

state of India, in the Rajputana agency . Area, 858 sq. m.; pop . (1901), 90,970, showing a decrease of 27% in the decade, due to the famine of 1899–1900; estimated revenue, £34,000; there is no tribute . The state was founded in the reign of the emperor Akbar, by a younger son of the raja of Jodhpur . In 1818 Kishangarh first came into direct relations with the British government, by entering into a treaty, together with the other Rajput states, for the suppression of the Pindari marauders by whom the country was at that time overrun . The chief, whose title is maharaja, is a Rajput of the Rathor clan . Maharaja Madan Singh ascended the throne in 1900 at the age of sixteen, and attended the Delhi Durbar of 1903 as a cadet in the Imperial Cadet Corps . The administration, under the diwan, is highly spoken of . Irrigation from tanks and wells has been extended; factories for ginning and pressing cotton have been started; and the social reform movement, for discouraging excessive expenditure on marriages, has been very successful . The state is traversed by the Rajputana railway . The town of KISHANGARH IS 18 m . N.W. of Ajmere by rail .

Pop . (1901), 12,663 . It is the

residence of many Jain merchants .