Place · Aravalli watch fort · India
Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur
Also known as Jaipur, Nahargarh, Nahargarh (Sudarshangarh), Nahargarh Fort
Nahargarh on the Aravalli crest above Jaipur, built by Jai Singh II in 1734 as the city's watch and its retreat, and never attacked. The Madhavendra Bhavan inside it is a row of nine identical suites for nine queens, each with its own kitchen, stair and courtyard, connected by a corridor to the king's rooms at the head.
- Date
- 1734
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 26.939, 75.815
Worth knowing
The fort is named for Nahar Singh Bhomia, a Rathore prince whose spirit was said to obstruct the building until a shrine was raised to him inside the walls. Jaipur's treasury was moved up here during the 1857 rising, and the state's European residents were sheltered in it.
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- Site withinJaipur
Nahargarh Fort, 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, “Nahargarh Fort”. Rajasthan State Gazetteer, Jaipur district; Giles Tillotson, Jaipur Nama (2006).
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