Place · Kachhwaha palace complex · India
City Palace, Jaipur
Also known as City Palace, City Palace — Jaipur, Jaipur, Kachhwaha royal complex
The City Palace occupies the central block of Jai Singh's grid, begun in 1729 and added to by every Sawai since: the Mubarak Mahal, the Diwan-i-Khas, the Diwan-i-Am and the seven-storey Chandra Mahal, which is still the family's residence and therefore only partly a museum.
- Date
- 1729 onward
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 26.926, 75.824
Worth knowing
The Diwan-i-Khas holds two silver urns of about three hundred and forty kilograms each, the largest silver vessels in the world, made to carry Ganges water to England for Madho Singh II in 1902 because he would not drink anything else. The palace armoury and its textile collection are the best in Rajasthan.
Connections (2)
- Site adjacencyHawa Mahal, Jaipur
The Hawa Mahal is part of the City Palace's zenana wing, built onto the street frontage in 1799 so that the palace women could watch processions without being seen. It is one room deep, has ramps instead of stairs, and is a facade rather than a building — which is the clearest surviving statement of how Rajput court architecture organised who could look at what.
- Site withinJaipur
City Palace, Jaipur sits inside Jaipur and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “City Palace, Jaipur”. Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust catalogues; Giles Tillotson, Jaipur Nama (2006).
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