Jamnagar City Info

(04) Present Day Jamangar

Present day Jamnagar is a charming blend of the old and the new with its ancient monuments and broad streets, inspiring facades, and squares, which make it one of the most beautiful cities in the Saurashtra Peninsula.

Jamnagar has distinguished itself on a number of counts. Of International fame is the bandhani painting which is a unique expression of fabric designing and a very time consuming process of a tying thousands of tiny knots in a piece of fabric that has first been folded upon itself a number of times. This is then dyed in several stages using different colors. The knots are pulled apart and the fabric is unfolded to reveal a repeating pattern in a variety of hues. The process, believed to have been used in the area for upto 5,000 years, is used for sarees, skirts, shawls and other items. And exquisite handicraft items such as silk and gold embroidery and silverware. Jamnagar’s pearl fishery centre was established in the 16th century, and is still on of the biggest pearl fishing centres in the world. The town has India’s only Ayurvedic University, making it  a sgnificant cenre for traditional medicine. The betel nut crackers of Jamnagar are much sought after all over the country. A naval base of some importance which train marines for electronic warfare. A brass parts and button industries which produces largest amount of export material of its kind. There are handicraft makers who designs best handicrafts. But perhaps the biggest achievement of all is the place it has earned in the Guiness Book of World Records twicely. First for the continuous chanting of the Lord Rama at Bala Hanuman Temple from last 39 years and second is for forming the biggest circle of Garba Players. The Jamnagar Municipal Corporation organised a program at Lakhota Lake surrounding which is a cirlce of 2 miles. In recent times also came up with the oil refineries of Reliance and Essar.

The Jamnagar district has also known with some aliases as to its uniqueness like that. Varoius aliases its known with are the “Jewel of Kathiawad”, “Chhoti Kashi”, “The Paris of Saurashtra”, “The Brass City”, etc.

“Chhoti Kashi” is named because of numbers of Hindu temples in Jamnagar. There are number of ancient temples in and around the town which is why it known as. There are almost 800+ temples when counted last in late ’80s. Temples built after that have to be added.

“Paris of Saurashtra” named after the town planning of the city, which is very similar to the Paris city. Jam Ranjitsinhji was very impressed by the town planning of Paris and so he ordered to made planning to make the city same.

“The Brass city” is named because of Brass industry in jamnagar which produce almost 33% supply of brasss products’ market in India and the largest exporter to the world.