Siwana Gadh Siwana (Gadh = Fort)
City
Siwana Location in Rajasthan, India Show map of Rajasthan Siwana Siwana (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 25°37′59″N 72°25′0″E / 25.63306°N 72.41667°E / 25.63306; 72.41667
Country	India
State	Rajasthan
District	BALOTRA district
Government
• Body	Tehsil and Sub Division
Elevation	184 m (604 ft)
Population
• Total	213,648
Languages
• Official	Hindi& Marwari [Siwanchi]
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	344044
Telephone code	+912901
Vehicle registration	RJ-39
Nearest city	Balotra
Lok Sabha constituency	Barmer (Lok Sabha constituency)
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Siwana
Civic agency	TEHSIL
Website	www.siwana.in

Siwana is a Tehsil in Barmer district in Indian state of Rajasthan, located 151 km from Barmer. The place is known for its fort which is locally known as Gadh Siwana, Gadh means Fort. Siwana contains 130 villages and has a total population of 213,648,^[1] 111,155 male and 102,493 female.

The closest large city to Siwana is Balotra, 35 km from Siwana.

Fort

The ruined Siwana fort (Gadh Siwana) is situated on a hilltop. According to bardic tradition, Siwana was established by Vira-narayana, a son of the 11th century Paramara king Bhoja.^[2]

In 1308, Alauddin Khalji of Delhi Sultanate defeated Sitala Deva, the local ruler. To commemorate Sitala Deva's heroic defence of the fort, an annual fair called the Kalyan Singh Ka Mela is still held within the precincts of the fort in the month of Shraavana (July-Aug). Later, in the period 1318–20, Luntiga Chauhan stormed the fort of Siwana and slaughtered its Muslim garrison. It was later captured by the Rathors of Marwar and remained a part of Marwar until independence of India. Siwana was the capital of Rao Chandrasen Rathore when he had opposed the Mughal emperor. Siwana was captured by badshah Akbar in 1576, but was later restored to Raja Udai Singh of Marwar.^{[citation needed]}

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  Fort view from below
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  View of fort during Upstairs
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  Down View of the village from the fort.
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  Lake - Gadh Siwana ( Fort)
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  Inside broken portion Gadh Siwana - Fort
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  Entry of Fort from the top of Fort - Gadh Siwana
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  Down Stairs from the Fort - Gadh Siwana

Notable people

The present MLA of Siwana is Hameer Singh Bhayal from BJP who defeated Sunil parihar from indefedent.^{[citation needed]}. Motilal Oswal, an entrepreneur in the financial services space, was born in the small village of Padru in the Siwana tehsil.^[3]