Lok Devta of Rajasthan :

In ancient times, such great men were born, they seemed to be a part of the gods or the incarnation of some deity. They were believed to have been worshiped by different communities in the long run and they also worshiped the great saints even today. Rajasthan has a strong tradition of venerating saints and righteous warriors as deities. This category is an attempt to bring all these folk deities in a single category.

Veer Tejaji :

Veer Teja or Tejaji was legendary Rajasthani warrior, social reformer and folk hero. He is considered one of the major eleven incarnations of Lord Shiva and worshipped as a deity in rural Rajasthan. Veer Teja is considered to be folk-deity and worshiped in entire Rajasthan by all communities. Tejaji was born on Vikram Samvant 1130 Magh Sudi 14 (Thursday 29 January 1074, according to English calendar), in the family of Dhaulya gotra Jats at Kharnal, Nagaur. His aura at the birth was so strong that he was named Teja.
Tejaji's legend is that of a young man, striving for respect and recognition, who is willing to sacrifice everything in order maintain tribal conceptions of honour. There are a number of different variations to the Tejaji legend as recounted by different bards and priests. However, there are five main elements to the legend that are included in most stories.
• Tejaji's marriage in infancy with an infant girl from a neighbouring clan, a barter marriage, which involved his sister being given in marriage to his infant wife's cousin.
• Tejaji setting off on a perilous journey to fetch his wife from her parents home in response to a taunt by his sister-in-law (elder brother's wife).
• Tejaji risking his life to protect the cows of a woman friend of his wife from bandits.
• Tejaji bravely fulfilling a vow to a snake at the cost of his own life.
• Tejaji's wife and his sister being burned to death at his funeral pyre in the ritual of Sati.

As per anthropologists, Tejaji's cult is a protagonist that includes an element of protest against the caste system. Even today a person from the Mali (gardener) caste is the chief priest of Tejaji's temple (rather than a Brahmin).

Pabuji :

Pabuji is a folk-deity of Rajasthan in India who is also worshiped in parts of Gujarat and the Indus plain.He lived in the 14th century in Rajasthan. He was one of four children of Dhadal Rathore of village Kolu, two boys (Buro and Pabuji) and two girls (Sona and Pema). The historical Pabuji was a mediaeval Rajput prince; he is now widely worshipped as a deity by Rajputs of Rajasthan, Rabari herdsmen and others throughout the Rajasthan countryside; and he is served by Nayak priests.

Pabuji lived in the remote desert village of Kolu, and in that village are to be found the only well-known conventional temples to him—two small temples within a single compound, where puja (worship) is offered to the deity. Small shrines, commemorative stones etc. abound, but, outside Kolu itself, the absence of actual temples is conspicuous. There are two reasons for it: first, Pabuji has yet to achieve sufficient prestige as a god to warrant the construction of pieces of architecture; and, second, many of his worshippers—in particular, many Rabaris—are semi-nomadic, and are thus not in a position regularly to visit a temple in a fixed spot.

Bhopa community in Rajasthan are considered to be priest singers of Pabuji. They depict the story of Pabuji on canvas and recite it to the public through religious songs. This painted canvas is called Phad. The Phad is a 30 feet long sheet on which are painted (or sewn) miniature scenes depicting the life of Pabuji on which his adventures are narrated.

Devnarayn :

Devnarayan was a Gurjar warrior from Rajasthan, India, who founded Baisla Clan. Mythology has it that he was an incarnation of Vishnu and he is worshipped as a folk deity, mostly in Rajasthan and north-western Madhya Pradesh. According to tradition, he was born to Sri Savai Bhoj and Sadu mata Gurjari[4] on the seventh day of the bright half (shukla saptami) of the month of Maagh in the Hindu Calendar in Vikram Samvat 968 (911 AD).According to one view historical Devnarayan belonged to 10th century of Vikram Samvat, according another view, he lived in between 1200-1400 (Vikram Samvat era).First view is endorsed by many scholars.

The epic of Devnarayan is one of the longest and most popular religious oral narratives of Rajasthan. The epic of Devnarayan has been classified under the category of 'martial epics.

Devnarayan is also worshiped by the Bhopas, the priest-singers by means of a scroll known as phad, depicting various episodes of the narrative of the life of Devnaryan. This scroll, Devnarayan phad, is used as a mobile temple and the Bhopas carry it with them. The Joshi families of Bhilwara and Shahpura are the traditional artists of the Devnarayan phads.

Guru Jambeshwar :

Guru Jambeshwar, also known as Guru Jambhaji, (1451-1536) was the founder of the Bishnoi sect. He was incarnation of Vishnu, the all mighty god. He taught that God is a divine power that is everywhere. He also taught to protect plants and animals as they are important in order to peacefully coexist with nature., also known as Guru Jambhaji, (1451-1536) was the founder of the Bishnoi sect. He was incarnation of Vishnu, the all mighty god. He taught that God is a divine power that is everywhere. He also taught to protect plants and animals as they are important in order to peacefully coexist with nature.

Jambheshwar was born in a Rajput family of the Panwar clan in the village of Pipasar in 1451. He was the only child of Lohat Panwar and Hansa Devi. For the first seven years of his life, Jambheshwar bhagwan was considered silent and introverted. He spent 27 years of his life as a cow herder.

Aged 34, Jambheshwar ji founded the Bishnoi sect. His teachings were in the poetic form known as Shabadwani. He preached for the next 51 years, travelling across the country, and produced 120 Shabads, or verses, of Shabadwan. The sect was founded after wars between Muslim invaders and local Hindus. He had laid down 29 principles to be followed by the sect - bish means twenty and noi means nine. Killing animals and felling trees were banned. The khejri tree (Prosopis cineraria), is also considered to be sacred by the Bishnois.

Bishnoism revolves around 29 rules. Of these, eight prescribe to preserve biodiversity and encourage good animal husbandry, seven provide directions for healthy social behaviour, and ten are directed towards personal hygiene and maintaining basic good health. The other four commandments provide guidelines for worshipping God daily.

Gogaji :

Gogaji (also known as Goga, Jahar Veer Gogga, Gugga , Gugga Pir, Gugga Jaharpir, Gugga Chohan, Gugga Rana, Gugga Birand Raja Mandlik) is a folk deity, worshipped in the northern states of India especially in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab region, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu. He is a warrior-hero of the region, venerated as a saint and a 'snake-god'.

Although there are references to him in the folklore of Rajasthan, little historical knowledge of Gugga exists other than that he ruled the small kingdom of Dadrewa (in present day Rajasthan) and was a contemporary of Prithviraj Chauhan.
According to legend, Goga was born with the blessings of Guru Gorakhnath, who gave 'Gugal' fruit to Goga's mother Bachhal which was used to name him. Another belief is that he was called Goga ji because of his remarkable service to cows(Gou in Sanskrit).

The cult of Goga falls within folk religion and therefore his followers include people from all faiths. Goga is popular as a Devta who protects his followers from snakes and other evils. He has been deified as a snake demigod and is a prominent figure among those who follow the Naga cult in what is now Rajasthan and since the seventeenth century has been worshipped in the Western Himalayas also, possibly as a consequence of migration there from Rajasthan. He is particularly popular among those engaged in agrarian pursuits, for whom the fear of snakebite is common. Although a Hindu, he has many Muslim devotees and is chiefly considered to be a saint (pir) who had the power to cure the effects of poison (jahar). His shrine, referred as medi (shortened colloquial term for Samadhi), consists of a one-room building with a minaret on each corner and a Hindu grave inside, marked by a Nishan (a symbol or sign), which is made up of a long bamboo with peacock plumes, a coconut, some colored threads and some handpankhas with a blue flag on the top.
Worship of Goga starts in Bhaadra month of Hindu calendar.

Baba Ramdev :

Baba Ramdev or Ramdevji, or Ramdeo Pir, Ramsha Pir (1352–1385 AD; V.S. 1409–1442) is a Hindu folkdeity of Rajasthan, India. He was a fourteenth-century ruler, said to have miraculous powers, who devoted his life to the upliftment of the downtrodden and poor people of society. He is worshiped today by many social groups of India as Ishta-deva.

Ramdev is considered to be an incarnation of Vishnu. King Ajmal (Ajaishinh) married Queen Minaldevi, daughter of Pamji Bhati of Chhahan Baru village. The childless king went to Dwaraka and pleaded with Krishna about his wish to have child like him. They had two sons, Viramdev and the younger Ramdev. Ramdev was born on Bhadarva Shukla Dooj in V.S. 1409 at Ramderiya, Undu and Kashmir in Barmer district. Ramdevji was a Tanwar.

In Rajasthan, Ramdev is the chief deity of the Meghwal community, worshiped during Vedwa Punam (August – September). The community's religious leader, Gokuldas, claims that Ramdev was himself a Meghwal in his 1982 book Meghwal Itihas, which constructs a history of Meghwal community. However, this is a claim accepted only by Meghwal community themselves. Other sources, folktales and Hindu community generally believes Ramdev to have been born in the Tanwar Rajput community.

Ramdev believed in the equality of all human beings, be they high or low, rich or poor. He helped the down-trodden by granting them their wishes. He is often depicted on horseback. His worship crosses the Hindu-Muslim divide as well as the distinctions of caste. His followers are spread across cutting across caste-barriers in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Gujaratand Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai, Delhi and also in Sindh in Pakistan. Several Rajasthani fairs are held to commemorate him. Temples in his name are found in many states of India.