Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Dausa

About Dausa — A Brief History

Dausa is one of the oldest small towns on the busy Delhi–Jaipur highway, and many people pass through without realising how much history sits along its narrow lanes. Local stories say the town's name comes from the older form Devansh, a sister settlement of nearby Khoh-Dargawan. Excavations have turned up coins and pottery from the early historic period, and the town was an important administrative seat under the Bargujars and the Kachhwaha Rajputs of Amber, who briefly used Dausa as their capital before moving to Jaipur in the early eighteenth century.

The biggest draw of the district today is the Mehandipur Balaji Hanuman temple, about an hour's drive away, which is among the most famous Hanuman shrines in north India and gets packed crowds every Tuesday and Saturday. The Abhaneri stepwell at Chand Baori, with its eighteen levels of perfectly geometric stone steps, is one of the deepest and oldest in India and now appears in many films. The old Lotwara fort and the Bhandarej ruins fill in the picture of the district's long past, and the small town of Sikandra is known for its sandstone carving workshops.

The local economy runs on agriculture bajra, mustard, gram and milk and on the steady stream of pilgrims, travellers and traders who use the Dausa exit on the highway every day. Marble and stone-carving units around Sikandra add a small industrial layer, and the new Delhi-Mumbai expressway has put Dausa firmly on the logistics map. Shree Mahavir Courier's Dausa branches handle the daily run of pilgrim mail, farm-trade papers and family parcels for the town and the smaller settlements like Mehandipur, Bandikui, Lalsot and Sikandra every working day.