page_title: Shekhawati
section_title: Culture, heritage, and tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Shekhawati / Culture, heritage, and tourism
caption_attribution_description: Original caption: The region of Shekhawati in Rajasthan (India) is famous for its painted houses in a number of towns there. Here, just before modern times arrived, in the 19th and even early 20th century, non-aristrocrats (wealthy and less wealthy trading families) finally let it all hang out and let their houses get painted inside out. This photo is taken in Nawalgarh where we also saw one such painting painted over with a Cola advertisement.Shekhawati painted houses (India)
context_page_description: Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India.
  Shekhawati is located in North Rajasthan comprising districts of Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Churu and a part of Nagaur and Jaipur. It is bounded on the northwest by the Jangladesh region, on the northeast by Haryana, on the east by Mewat, on the southeast by Dhundhar, on the south by Ajmer, and on the southwest by the Marwar region. Its area is 13784 square kilometers.
  History has it that in the 17th to 19th centuries, Marwari merchants constructed these grand havelis in the Shekhawati region. Steeped in wealth and affluence, these merchants got busy outdoing others in building more grand edifices – homes, temples, step wells which were richly decorated both inside and outside with painted murals.
caption: Shekhawati painted houses.
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