Marwar Junction is a census town and tehsil headquarter in Pali district in the

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. This is an important railway junction on Ahemdabad - Delhi mainline in Pali district .

Ajmer Ajmer is one of the major and oldest cities in the Indian state of Rajasthan and the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District. It is located at the centre of Rajasthan. It is also known as heart of Rajasthan. The city was established as "' ...

- Ahmedabad meter gauge opened in 1881 under Rajasthan State Railway and

Marwar Junction railway station Marwar Junction railway station (station code MJ) is located in Pali district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It serves the census town at Marwar Junction. The railway station Marwar Junction railway station is at an elevation of and was as ...

became the junction on 24 June 1882 on opening of Marwar-

Pali Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or '' Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of '' Theravāda'' Buddh ...

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Jodhpur Jodhpur (; ) is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state. It was formerly the seat of the princely state of Jodhpur State. Jodhpur was historically the capital of the ...

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Mavli Mavli is a town in Mavli tehsil of Udaipur district in Rajasthan, India. Mavli Junction railway station is an important station under Ajmer railway division of North Western Railway zone of Indian Railways. It connects Marwar Junction , Chit ...

-Marwar Junction metre gauge was opened in 1936. It is now on the broad gauge Delhi-Ahmedabad line. Marwar Junction is mentioned in Kipling's "The Man Who Would be King" where Peachy Carnahan tells Kipling to meet Daniel Dravot on the morning of the 24th as Dravot travels on the Bombay mail.

Demographics

As of 2011 India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

, Marwar Junction had a population of 12004. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Marwar Junction has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 76%, and female literacy is 52%. In Marwar Junction, 16% of the population is under six years of age.

References

Cities and towns in Pali district 1881 establishments in India {{Rajasthan-geo-stub