It is 8km by road northeast of Piparcity on the Jodhpur-Merta road. It is on the left (southeast) bank of the Jojari River, an intermittent stream and tributary of the Luni River.[2]
In 2011, it came into limelight, when the nurse Bhanwari Devi was kidnapped there, leading to a political scandal.[3]
Demographics
In the 2001 census, the village of Jaliwara Khurd had 1,092 inhabitants, with 572 males (52.4%) and 520 females (47.6%), for a gender ratio of 909 females per thousand males.[4]