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A villager crosses the flooded field in scooter during the monsoon season in Sonkhaliya village in Rajasthan. Rajasthan has a rich cultural heritage.It has a variety of village life depending on the weather, history, caste system and traditional festivals like cattle fairs, Haat and religious fair. Rajasthan, known as "the land of kings", is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It comprises most of the area of the large, inhospitable Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, which parallels the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with Pakistan to the west. Rajasthan is also bordered by Gujarat to the southwest, Madhya Pradesh to the southeast, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to the northeast and Punjab to the north. Rajasth