This is a Hindi medium (हिन्दी माध्यम) book from Meridian Academy by Vijay Sihag on Rajasthan Kala evam Sanskriti — the art and culture of Rajasthan (राजस्थान कला एवं संस्कृति) — a New Edition 2026 prepared for the examinations conducted by RPSC and RSMSSB. It is source-based (स्रोत आधारित), written according to the latest syllabus of the Board of Secondary Education, Ajmer, and includes examination-oriented short notes (परीक्षापयोगी शॉर्ट नोट्स). The entire book is written in Hindi in the Devanagari script. The source-based claim, tied specifically to the board's own textbooks, is what makes this different from the many art and culture compilations in circulation. This subject suffers more than most from information that has been copied between books for years without anyone returning to a source — a dance attributed to the wrong region, a fair given the wrong month, a saint placed in the wrong sect. Once such an error enters the market it propagates, and a candidate who has learnt it confidently will answer confidently and wrongly. Anchoring the content to the board's textbooks and the current syllabus is the correction. The short notes serve the other half of the problem. Rajasthan art and culture is pure recall — folk deities, saints and sects, fairs and festivals, dances and instruments, painting schools, forts, dialects, dress and folk literature — and no amount of understanding substitutes for having the names available under time. Condensed, examination-oriented notes are what make the subject revisable in the final weeks rather than merely readable in the first months. The book is written for RAS, PSI, Teacher recruitment, CET, VDO, EO and NO examinations, which share this section in common. Key Features: Hindi medium book — complete content written in Hindi (Devanagari script) Author: Vijay Sihag Published by Meridian Academy New Edition 2026 Source-based (srot aadharit) content As per the latest syllabus of the Board of Secondary Education, Ajmer Examination-oriented short notes included Covers folk deities, saints, sects and religious traditions Covers fairs, festivals, customs and rituals Covers folk dances, folk music and musical instruments Covers schools of painting, handicrafts and architecture Covers forts, monuments, dialects, dress, ornaments and folk literature Anchored to board textbooks rather than copied from other compilations Short notes make the subject revisable in the final weeks For RAS, PSI, Teacher recruitment, CET, VDO, EO and NO Useful across all RPSC and RSMSSB examinations मेरिडियन एकेडमी द्वारा प्रकाशित तथा विजय सिहाग द्वारा लिखित यह 'राजस्थान कला एवं संस्कृति' नवीन संस्करण 2026 है, जो स्रोत आधारित है, माध्यमिक शिक्षा बोर्ड, अजमेर के नवीनतम पाठ्यक्रम के अनुसार तैयार किया गया है तथा जिसमें परीक्षापयोगी शॉर्ट नोट्स सम्मिलित हैं। यह पूर्णतः हिन्दी भाषा एवं देवनागरी लिपि में है। स्रोत आधारित होना इस विषय में विशेष रूप से महत्त्वपूर्ण है, क्योंकि कला एवं संस्कृति की सामग्री वर्षों से एक पुस्तक से दूसरी में उतारी जाती रही है और उसी क्रम में त्रुटियाँ भी फैलती रही हैं — कोई नृत्य गलत क्षेत्र से जोड़ दिया गया, कोई मेला गलत माह में, कोई संत गलत सम्प्रदाय में; और अभ्यर्थी उसे आत्मविश्वास से याद कर आत्मविश्वास से ही गलत उत्तर देता है। बोर्ड की पाठ्यपुस्तकों एवं वर्तमान पाठ्यक्रम से जोड़कर लिखना इसी का समाधान है। शॉर्ट नोट्स दूसरी आवश्यकता पूरी करते हैं, क्योंकि यह विषय पूर्णतः स्मरण का है और अंतिम सप्ताहों में वही सामग्री काम आती है जो दोहराई जा सके। यह पुस्तक RAS, PSI, टीचर, CET, VDO, EO एवं NO परीक्षाओं हेतु उपयोगी है।