Different kinds of claim stay different on purpose.
Government and primary institutional records lead. Academic teaching material, archives, and contemporary reference works fill specific transitions. A period source is identified as a period source. A current status is stamped with the date checked. A number retains both its data year and geography.
| Class | What it can support | What it cannot silently become |
|---|---|---|
| Historical record | A sourced event, date, institution, or transition | Legend, total explanation, or unbroken continuity |
| Measured data | A count for a named year and geography | A current estimate under a new label |
| Current status | What an institution or policy page stated when checked | Proof that every older statistic is current |
| Plan estimate | The scale and assumptions of an official framework | A census result or guaranteed outcome |
| Plan proposal | That a scheme or land use is formally named | Funding, construction, completion, or benefit |
| Folklore / tradition | A culturally transmitted account, visibly labelled | Established history without corroboration |
The complete line-by-line source list remains available as SOURCES.md. This page explains the same rules in a more readable form without replacing that detailed record.
Eighteen entries carry the public argument.
- S01Mehrangarh Museum Trust · history and architecture: Mandore, Rao Jodha, fort growth, capture, alliance, and building phases.Open ↗
- S02Government of India · Jodhpur Foundation Day: official commemoration of 12 May 1459.Open ↗
- S03IGNCA · Rajasthan political chronology and 1857: Chandrasen and the Auwa campaign.Open ↗
- S04IGNOU · Mughal and Rajput States: Jaswant Singh’s succession crisis and Rathore rebellion.Open ↗
- S05Rajasthan Tourism · Jodhpur: current public identity, water places, Khejarli, Umaid Bhawan, and attractions.Open ↗
- S06Smithsonian NMAA · Jodhpur treaty of 1818: archival record for the 6 January agreement.Open ↗
- S07North Western Railway · Jodhpur Division overview: construction, opening, and workshop chronology.Open ↗
- S08Government records · accession, Greater Rajasthan, and High Court: 1947 separated from 1949.Open ↗
- S09Mehrangarh Museum Trust · about and museum: trust history and the fort’s present public role.Open ↗
- S10Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park: 2006 creation, restoration purpose, and approximate 70-hectare extent.Open ↗
- S11Census of India · A-04: official 2011 Urban Agglomeration, outgrowth, and Municipal Corporation counts.Open ↗
- S12PIB + Census India · Census 2027 schedule: why houselisting is not a new population count.Open ↗
- S13Rajasthan Economic Review 2025–26: Jodhpur’s district product and destination positioning.Open ↗
- S14Rajasthan Tourism · 2024 visit reporting: department-reported visits, not unique identities.Open ↗
- S15Rajasthan High Court · current principal-seat status.Open ↗
- S16IIT Jodhpur + AIIMS Jodhpur · current education, research, and healthcare institutions.Open ↗
- S17Jodhpur Development Authority · Master Development Plan 2031: regional estimate, land, capacity, and proposals.Open plan PDF ↗
- S18JDA · draft zonal report for Nagar Nigam South: approval record and staged detail-planning evidence.Open ↗
What is withheld matters as much as what is printed.
- Hermit curses, live burial, and Karni Mata foundation accounts remain labelled tradition or folklore.
- Solar descent and direct descent from Kannauj’s rulers are not treated as established genealogy.
- Mehrangarh was not “completed in 1459,” was captured in 1544, and is not presented as permanently unconquered.
- Mughal–Marwar relations are not reduced to one oppression-versus-resistance story.
- No exact August 1947 accession day or sensational “blank sheet” story is asserted without the original signed instrument.
- No single caste, cooling, termite, or other explanation for blue-painted houses is declared definitive.
- No “2026 population,” current second-largest-city rank, tourism unique-visitor total, or unsupported superlative is invented.
- The 3.1 million 2031 value remains a wider-region plan estimate, not a future city census.
- No special scheme is called funded, built, complete, or beneficial without project-level implementation evidence.
Jodhpur is the city and former capital. Marwar is the wider region and historical polity. The site never treats those categories as interchangeable.
Real photographs. Visible creators. No invented past.
All local photographs are resized WebP adaptations for web delivery. CSS may crop or colour-treat them at display time. No historical person, battle, street, or architectural state is generated and presented as documentary evidence.
| Subject | Creator | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mehrangarh, city and Ranisar | Dlinemedia | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Rao Jodha statue and fort | Sreesarkar | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Mandore Gardens | Surbhighoghari | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Blue City panorama | Lokankara | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Phool Mahal | Dinesh Valke | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Commons |
| Mehrangarh jharokha | Güldem Üstün | CC BY 2.0 | Commons |
| Jaswant Thada | Kumaranshu26 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Umaid Bhawan | Yann Forget | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Ghanta Ghar | Vyacheslav Argenberg | CC BY 4.0 | Commons |
| Sardar Market | Güldem Üstün | CC BY 2.0 | Commons |
| Toorji Ka Jhalra | Dr. Raju Kasambe | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Ranisar Lake | Jakub Hałun | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
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The 3D layer is an argument—not a map.
The flagship’s ridge → fort → water → city → living Jodhpur → 2031 → continuum relief is original procedural composition. It is not GIS, archaeology, a fort plan, a measured street map, an official land-use reproduction, or a reconstruction of Jodhpur at any historical date.
Terrain heights, walls, water shapes, camera positions, buildings, rings, corridors, paths, and nodes are authored explanatory geometry. Seeds 1459 and 2031 are mnemonic numbers, not dataset identifiers. Continuum paths do not represent roads, rails, pipes, boundaries, migration, causation, or implementation.
The real claim is narrower: sourced records support the relationships among elevation, fortification, water infrastructure, urban accumulation, current institutions, and a formal regional planning framework. The abstract composition makes those relationships visible while its caption and this page state exactly what it cannot prove.
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