Jaipur
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Jaipur
Jaipur
a city in northwestern India, in the semidesert outskirts of the Malwa Plateau; administrative center of the state of Rajasthan. Population, 613,400 (1971). A commerce and transportation junction, Jaipur is the most important economic and cultural center in the state. It has cotton, leather footwear, ceramics, and food industries and railroad and automotive repair shops. Jaipur’s cottage industries produce goods made from cloth with silver and gold ornamentation, as well as marble, ivory, and metal goods. The city is a tourist center and the site of a university.
Jaipur, founded in 1728, is a walled city divided into blocks, by streets which run east-to-west and north-to-south. An 18th-century palace complex with gardens, pools, and fountains, the Palace of Chandra Mahal (including the maharajah of Jaipur’s art museum), the Jantar Mantar Observatory, and the Palace of Hawa Mahal (the Hall of Winds, 1751-68) occupy central Jaipur. The city’s new section, with hotels, movie theaters, shops, a school of arts and crafts, and a park, was built south of the city walls during the 19th and 20th centuries.