Short answers, pulled from the story.
Jodhpur was founded in 1459 by Rao Jodha, a Rajput chief of the Rathore clan. The name derives from its founder: "Jodh" represents Rao Jodha, and "pur" means city or town in Sanskrit, making Jodhpur the "City of Jodha."
Jodhpur is known as the Blue City because of the dominant blue colour scheme of the buildings in its old town. The old city circles the Mehrangarh Fort and is enclosed by a wall with several gates.
Maharaja Hanwant Singh, the last ruler of Jodhpur state, signed the Instrument of Accession on the 11th of August 1947, four days before Indian independence. On the 30th of March 1949, Jodhpur became part of the newly formed state of Rajasthan.
The highest temperature recorded in Jodhpur was 48.8 degrees Celsius, measured on the 20th of May 2016. The city has a hot desert climate and regularly exceeds 40 degrees Celsius during April, May, and June.
Several well-known films used Jodhpur as a location, including The Dark Knight Rises directed by Christopher Nolan, The Darjeeling Limited starring Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody, The Fall directed by Tarsem Singh, and the Bengali film Sonar Kella directed by Satyajit Ray, shot in the early 1970s.
As of 2025, Jodhpur has a population of 1.6 million. Following the inclusion of 395 villages into the city boundary in February 2021, the official count reached 1,663,000, with projections suggesting the population could exceed 3.1 million by 2031.