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Speard across the erstwhile princely state of Rajasthan are a large number of palaces and estates that were once home to families that ruled over India. These bastions of history , bristling with memories ,some pleasant others less so, seats of intrigue, of coronations, royal residence where durbars were once staged, were abandoned with the passage of time as mordern, independent India surged ahead on the road to progress. Since the government had withdrawn the privileges granted under the privypurse, maintaining these magnificent properties, each individually created over centuries, adorned with the best painting and furniture, and representing different periods of architectural history, were in danger of falling to ruin, even though most continued to serve as residence for the former members of the royal families. With
their recent conversion into hotels, though they have managed to keep their flavour
as medieval homes intact, these once forbidden deras have opened their doors to
the world. And in doing so, they have ensured befitting manner, and that a way
of living that was losing ground to the 21st century, has been preserved for a
little while longer.
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For starters Umaid is a formal building that is perfectly symmetrical,and its 347 rooms offer few concessions to Rajput architecture other than such devises as concealed corridors and balconies for the use of courtyards arround which the several wings of the palace are arranged . Built at the height of the art-deco period, there are several embellishments on the outer walls, such as the eagle,carved from sandstone. All original fittings have been retained . While many of its accoutrements are in use, others have been placed in a museum within the premises. Here , you can find out for yourself the fine china used by the royal family, trace the history of the clocks and telephones that were once put to use in the different rooms, and discover a bit of your own past in a nostalgia-driven journey through a time not so long ago. Finally, you can end the journey in a room of your own, one of 95 rooms in the palace. Click
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JAI
MAHAL PALACE : A sumptuous hotel , it combines an 18th century Nathani
townhouse withih more recent constructions, but so skillfully has this been done,
that it is difficult to tell the two apart . Essentially, the original part has
the public areas and restaurant, while a new wing had added the guest rooms required
to run it as a hotel . Managed by the Taj Groups of Hotels, the rooms overlook
a garden that has been specially created to replicate the first Mughal Garden
in India, laid by Emperor Babur at Dholpur. Its facilities include from solar
heated pool to beauty parlour, a bar, lounge, multi-cuisine restaurant (with glittering
chandeliers overhead) 105 rooms and 5 suites.
RAMBAGH
PALACE : One of the country's finest, and oldest, palace hotels , Rambagh
was home for the dashing Man Singh and Gayatri Devi before its conversion into
a hotel. Initially a garden house that belonged to a royal maid, and later taken
over by the state as a hunting lodge, Rambagh was converted into a magnificent
palace by the british architect, Sir Swinton Jacob, who designed many of the palaces
in Rajasthan. To this, additions were subsequently carried out, and on the occasion
of the marriage of Man Singh to Gayatri Devi, his third wife, desigeners were
called from London to renovate the palace as their chosen home. Ever since, Rambagh
glittered on the global circit for its dancing balls became the talk of the the
glitterati. Today, the suites still retain their grandeur , the fountain plays
in the Polo Bar, the formal restaurant has a painted ceiling reminiscent of the
many gardens and courtyards are well maintained by the Taj Groups of Hotels.The
palace has a colossal 106 guest rooms and 4 suites,and also a coffee shop,and
a shopping arcade.
LAXMI
NIWAS PALACE:
UMAID BHAWAN PALACE :
Umaid Bhawan , the finest extant example of art-deco, the only palace to have
paintings from the Ramayana painted by a polish artist, the first to use airconditioning,
electricity and elevators, and the most impressive for its size and dimensions
. Yet, that should be hardly strange, for the architect, H.V. Lancaster, who planned
it, wanted it to rival the Viceregal Lodge (now Rashtrapati Bhawan ) then being
planned by Sir Edward Lutyens in the new capital at New Delhi , also then under
construction.
LAKE
PALACE :
Also known as Jag Niwas, this stunning Palace afloat on Lake Pichola, was developed
by Rana Jagat Singh II in 1730's as a pleasure palace because premission had been
denied to him by his father to develop the existing island palace of Jag Mandir.A
large number of palatial apartments here date to this period.Additions were made
in following century, but the palace is now aging.However, it continued to remain
a favourite retreat for the Sisodia family who would come here to get away from
the pressure of court. In 1961, Maharana Bhagwat Singh decided to convert Jag
Niwas into a luxury hotel because, as its design consultant said, "it seemed
the only viable way that it could be maintained". It caught the fancy of
the International Who's who immediately, and since 1971, it has been managed by
the Taj Group of Hotels.
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