A stone's throw from the Mehrangarh Fort, built at the turn of the nineteenth century by Jaswant Singh's Maharani in her husband's memory, the shining white Jaswant Thada serves as a shrine to the Rathore dynasty. All around it today are the chattris or cenotaphs of the rulers and their queens who followed Jaswant Singh II for the complex, on the banks of the Dev Kund, The Pond of the Gods, serves as the royal cremation grounds.

The Jaswant Thada was taken over in 1949 with the Merger of the Jodhpur State and maintained by the Rajasthan State Government till a few years back when it was handed over to the Mehrangarh Museum Trust. A comprehensive restoration and conservation plan, which includes the gardens, is now under way.