Mukundara Hills National Park

Mukundara Hills National Park covers about 200 square kilometres in south-eastern Rajasthan and forms the core of the Mukundara Hills Tiger Reserve, which stretches across Kota, Bundi, Chittorgarh and Jhalawar. The reserve was notified in April 2013 and enlarged in 2023 to more than 1,100 square kilometres, taking in the Darrah and Jawahar Sagar sanctuaries, part of the National Chambal Sanctuary and Bhainsrodgarh.

The name comes from two nearly parallel flat-topped Vindhyan ridges running about 80 kilometres from the Chambal to the Kali Sindh, named after Maharao Mukund of Kota. Much of the forest was once the hunting ground of the Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar rulers. Darrah became a sanctuary in 1955, though royal hunting rights lasted until the early 1970s, and part of it was later notified as the national park. The vegetation is dry deciduous forest of the Kathiawar-Gir type.