The 37th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee (WHC) on Friday inscribed the Hill Forts of Rajasthan cultural property in India on the World Heritage List.

“On behalf of the 21-member committee, I’d like to congratulate India for the inscription of the cultural property of Hill Forts of Rajasthan on the World Heritage List,” Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, Chairman of the 37th WHC session, said after the site was listed.

According to the UNESCO’s document, the Hill Forts of Rajasthan are serial property formed by seven sites in the northwestern state of Rajasthan in India, each strategically built and located on the oldest mountain range of the Aravallis or the Vindhyan range in the region and, each as a representative of the medieval defense settlements of the Rajput warrior caste.

These seven sites collectively constitute the most authentic, best conserved and most representative sites of Rajput military architecture of Rajasthan region, the document said.

The seven hill forts of Rajasthan are selected as authentic examples from varied geographic, physiographic and cultural zones within Rajasthan to represent a complete range of the hill forts of Rajasthan. ‘)}