LALSOT

About Lalsot

Lalsot is a city and a municipality in Dausa district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. As of 2001 India census, Lalsot had a population of 28,278. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Lalsot has an average literacy rate of 59%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 46%. In Lalsot, 18% of the population is under 6 years of age. Lalsot is located at 2634N 7620E / 26.57N 76.33E / 26.57; 76.33. It has an average elevation of 298metres (977feet). Rajputs and Marathas fought a pitched battle in May 1787 called the Battle of Lalsot. Such was the state of things when the ascendancy of Mahadji Scindia received a signal from the combined forces of Marwar and Jaipur and the of Lalsot in which the Maratha chief was defeated. It was the signal for the Rajputs to resume their alienated territory. Nor was the Rana of Mewar backward on the occasion when there a momentary gleam of the active virtue of past days. Maldas...