Place · Hada Chauhan capital · India
Taragarh & the Garh Palace, Bundi
Also known as Bundi, Taragarh Bundi, Garh Palace, Chitrashala
The Hada Chauhan seat in a narrow valley of the Vindhyan hills, with the Taragarh fort above and the Garh Palace built in stages down the hillside below it. Its Chitrashala holds the most complete surviving programme of Bundi-school wall painting anywhere.
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- Authority & administration
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 25.440, 75.640
Worth knowing
Rudyard Kipling wrote that the palace was the work of goblins rather than of men, and stayed there while writing part of Kim. Bundi's stepwells — fifty or more in one small town, several of them monumental — are the other thing it is known for.
Connections (1)
- AnalogueSajjangarh Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
Bundi's Chitrashala and Udaipur's Sajjangarh are the two ends of Rajput palace-building: a painted chamber programme finished to the last inch in a valley town, and an ambitious hilltop pavilion abandoned when its twenty-five-year-old patron died. Both were built after fortification stopped mattering, and what replaced it was painting in one case and a view in the other.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Bundi”. Giles Tillotson, The Rajput Palaces: The Development of an Architectural Style 1450–1750 (1987); Milo Beach on the Bundi painting school.
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