Jaipur: The Pink City
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Jaipur and its business
Jaipur, the Pink-city, is referred as Paris of India. It is a herritage city. Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh built this city three hundred years back.
He invited Vidyadhar, a Bengali town planner from Bengal for the purpose. Vidyadhar planned the town very well. Jaipur is built in a square area. The big square is divided into nine (3x3) equal squares.
The center of Jaipur is Manak Chowk that is called Badi Choupad now a days. Manak means Ruby in Hindi language. Johari Bazar (The market of Jewelers) is situated near by. Hawamahal (Wind palace), the icon of Jaipur, is situated near Badi Choupar.
The old city is completely walled. The walled city buildings are all pink. Jaipur is named as Pink City because of that.
Business and Industry:
Gems and Jewelry is the main business of Jaipur. More than hundred thosand people are involved in the trade. It is the biggest center for color stone in India. Nowadays it has developed as a manufacturing center of Jewelry too. Jaipur exports large amount of color stones all over the world. Jaipur produces special variety of Jewelry i.e. Jadau Kundan Meena.
Carpet: This is also a big business here. Jaipur artisans weave beautiful carpets of wool, silk and velvet. This carpets are also sold in indiginious market and overseas.
Statues and Idols: There is a separate district in Jaipur to produce and trade Idols. India requires hundreds and thousands of god and goddess idols every year for Hindu and Jain temples. People also need statues of great personalities and some times of their forefathers or so. Jaipur supplies almost all of those.
Handicrafts and Paintings: Jaipur is a place for handicrafts. It produces wooden, copper, brass, stone and other handcrafted articles. Blue potteries of Jaipur are loved globally. Jaipur school paintings are also famous.
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Monuments and tourist spots
Jaipur is situated in the golden triangle of Indian tourist map along with the Tazmahal fame Agra and Indian capital Delhi. It is the capital of Rajasthan and situated 265 KM or 165 milkes from Delhi. Sanganer international airport joins it with the rest of the world. Jaipur railway station is connected well with all parts of India. There is an interstate bus terminus at Sindhi Camp.
Forts: Amber, Jaigarh and Nahargarh are the three forts situated over the Aravalli mountain. Elephant safari in Amber atracts many tourists. A big water storage tank and a very big and old canon are main atraction in Jaigarh fort. Sheeshmahal of Amber is worth visit. A wild life sanctuary is attached with Nahargarh fort.
City Palace: This official residence of former Royal family is open for the tourists. It is situated near Badi Choupad. It displays thousands of articles including extremely big water vessels of silver used by the then Kings and Royal family. An observatory named Jantarmantar is situated besides city Palace. It is the oldest observatory in the world built by sawai Jaisingh.
Vidyadhar ka Bagh and Sisodia Rani Garden: There are many gardens in Jaipur. Two famous gardens are in the Agra road. One is named after the town planner Vidyadhar and another in the name of queen from Sisodia clan. Bollywood film makers love to shoot their films in these gardens.
Ramniwas Bagh and Albert hall: Maharaja Ramsingh built this garden. Albert hall, a museum is in the center of this big garden. There is a zoo in side the garden.
Jaipur, city of temples: Large number of Vaishnava, Shaiva and Jain temples are proving religious faith of the city. Govind deoji, Khole ke Hanumanji, Moti Doongri Ganeshji, Shiladevi, Laxminarayan (Birla temple) etc are famous hindu temples. There are many Jain temples too that includes Chulgiri, Moti doongri Dadabari, Mohanbari, Sanganer and Amber temples.
There are Gurudwaras, Mosques and churchs to show the multi religion character of the city.
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countrywomen says:
14 months ago
I have been Jaipur and its beautiful. We went to Hawa Mahal, Jantar mantar, City Palace, jalmahal and museum. It was a great trip. We also had bikaneri rasogulla (which are really big in size).