Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer was a Bhati Rajput kingdom in the Thar desert, ruled from its sandstone fort. In 1337 Rawal Kehar Singh II held a state enriched by taxes on desert caravans.

A late fourteenth-century siege by Firuz Shah Tughluq brought a second jauhar. In the sixteenth century, Amir Ali smuggled armed men into the fort in palanquins under Lunakaran, causing a half jauhar. In 1818 the ruler accepted British protection, invoking the treaty in 1829 to avert war with Bikaner.