Malar is a
panchayat village in the state of
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (; Literal translation, lit. 'Land of Kings') is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the List of states and union territories of ...
, India.
[2001 Census Village code for Malar = 01915500, ] Administratively, it is under
Bap tehsil
Bap tehsil is a tehsil in Jodhpur District of Rajasthan state in western India. Headquarters for the tehsil is the village of Bap.
Bap tehsil is the northernmost of the eleven tehsils in Jodhpur District. It borders Phalodi tehsil to the south ...
of
Jodhpur District
Jodhpur district () is a district in the State of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Jodhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.
As of the 2011 census, it is the second highest populated district of Rajasthan (out of 33), ...
of Rajasthan.
[2011 Census Village code for Malar = 084107, ]
There are three villages in the Malar
gram panchayat: Malar, Godarli, and Reen.
Geography
Malar is in the
Thar Desert
The Thar Desert (), also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of in India and Pakistan. It is the world's 18th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-large ...
and suffers extreme heat in the summers. It is located north of the town of
Phalodi
Phalodi is a city in Phalodi district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is the headquarters for Phalodi district. Phalodi is also called the "salt city" due to the salt industry in Rin. Phalodi is in the buffer zone of Thar Desert and ofte ...
.
Godarli is located just 2 km by dirt road to the southeast. Reen is located about 9 km by road north of Malar almost to the Agar Ka Rin (
dry lake
A dry lake bed, also known as a playa (), is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge. If the floor of a dry lake is covered by deposits of alkalin ...
).
History
Malar sits at the center of the area formerly covered by the
princely states of
Jaisalmer
Jaisalmer , nicknamed ''The Golden city'', is a city in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, located west of the state capital Jaipur, in the heart of the Thar Desert. It serves as the administrative headquarters of Jaisalmer district ...
,
Bikaner
Bikaner () is a city in the northwest of the States and territories of India, state of Rajasthan, India. It is located northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. It is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division.
Fo ...
and
Jodhpur
Jodhpur () is the second-largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, after its capital Jaipur. As of 2023, the city has a population of 1.83 million. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Jodhpur district and ...
.
Until 2009, Malar was part of
Phalodi tehsil, at that point Bap Taluka was created out of northern Phalodi tehsil.
Demographics
In the India census of 2001, the village of Malar had a population of 943. Males constituted 501 (53.1%) of the population and females 442 (46.9%), for a gender ratio of 882 females per thousand males.
Notes
Villages in Jodhpur district
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