[2] It lies in the middle of the Aravalli Range, and these mountains are the source of its fame as a marble producer.

Makrana is a large town in formerly entire Nagaur district, with a deposit of 56 million tonnes of marble and 40,000 labourers working in 900 mines in the several ranges of the Aravallis.

[3] The present rate of marble production from Makrana is 19.20 million tonnes per year with an annual revenue of rupees (INR) 20036 crore.

The Victoria Memorial of Kolkata, the Taj Mahal in Agra, the Raudat Tahera in Mumbai and the Jain Temple of Dilwara in southern Rajasthan are built from Makrana marble.

Some other monuments where Makrana marble has been used are the Haji Ali Dargah of Mumbai, the Jain Temple of Mysore, and the Ambedkar Park of Lucknow, Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

The Pahar Kua range is thought to be the actual mine from which the marble for the Taj Mahal was extracted.

It is said that the idol of diety charbhujanath was found between 1580 and 1590 AD from an Ancient Bawadi named Charbhuja Bawdi.