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Hawa Mahal (Hindi: हवा महल, translation: "Palace of Winds" or “Palace of Breezes”), is a popular nightly radio show in India broadcast on the Vividh Bharati service. [1] It has a skit-format, where stories from various writers were dramatized into plays. [ 2 ]
The Hawa Mahal is a palace in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Built from red and pink sandstone, it is on the edge of the City Palace, Jaipur, and extends to the Zenana, or women's chambers. Hawa Mahal is known as the “palace of winds“. Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh built it palace in 1799.
The Hawa Mahal was constructed by Pratap Singh. The finest example of his connoisseurship is the unique architectural marvel Hawa Mahal (the palace of the Winds) and few rooms of the City Palace, which he got constructed. A large number of scholarly works were produced during his time.
Jaipur (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ p ʊər / ⓘ; Hindi: [ˈdʒeəpʊɾ], also [ˈdʒəjpʊɾ]) is the capital and the largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan.As of 2011, the city has a population of 3.1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in the country.
[1] [3] It is near City Palace and Hawa Mahal. [4] The instruments allow the observation of astronomical positions with the naked eye. [ 1 ] The observatory is an example of the Ptolemaic positional astronomy which was shared by many civilizations.
Khetri Mahal was constructed by Bhopal Singh around 1770. Bhopal Singh was the grandson of Sardul Singh. Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh of Jaipur built his Hawa Mahal , also known as the Wind Palace, on the model of the Khetri Mahal, in 1799.
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English: "Palace of Winds" or “Palace of the Breeze”), is a palace in Jaipur, India. It was built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, and designed by Lal Chand Ustad in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god.