Place · Jat garden palace · India
Deeg Palace
Also known as Deeg, Dig, Bharatpur Jat palace, Gopal Bhavan
The Jat rulers of Bharatpur's summer palace, built from about 1722 between two great tanks, with a monsoon pavilion whose roof channels were designed to make artificial rain and stone swings taken as plunder from Delhi. It is the best-preserved eighteenth-century garden palace in north India.
- Date
- 1722–None
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 27.470, 77.327
Worth knowing
Suraj Mal's forces sacked Delhi in 1761 and much of what furnishes Deeg came from it, including a marble swing from the Red Fort. The Jats were the one peasant-caste power to build a state and a palace architecture of this scale in the Mughal heartland.
Connections (1)
- Monument relocationRed Fort, Delhi
Suraj Mal's Jat army sacked Delhi in 1761 and a good deal of what furnishes Deeg came back with it, including a marble swing taken from the Red Fort. The Jat state's palace architecture is literally built out of Mughal material, which is a more honest record of the eighteenth century than most buildings of the period give.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Deeg Palace”. Archaeological Survey of India, Agra circle notices; Giles Tillotson, The Rajput Palaces (1987).
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