The Hawa Mahal of Jaipur was built in 1799 by which ruler?
- A.Sawai Jai Singh II
- B.Sawai Pratap Singh
- C.Sawai Ram Singh II
- D.Maharaja Man Singh II
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Sawai Pratap Singh. The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the eastern edge of the City Palace complex, was raised in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen. Its pink sandstone jharokhas make it the most photographed building in Jaipur.
Option A is wrong because Sawai Jai Singh II founded the city itself in 1727 and built the Jantar Mantar, dying decades before the Hawa Mahal was begun. Option C is wrong because Sawai Ram Singh II belongs to the later nineteenth century and is remembered for having Jaipur washed pink in 1876 for the Prince of Wales. Option D is wrong because Maharaja Man Singh II was the last ruling Maharaja, made Rajpramukh when Greater Rajasthan was formed in 1949.
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Practice Questions
View allWho founded the city of Bikaner, and in which year?
- A.Rao Jodha, in 1459
- B.Rao Bika, in 1488
- C.Rao Maldeo, in 1532
- D.Rao Chandrasen, in 1562
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Rao Bika was a son of Rao Jodha of Marwar, and he moved north into the Jangladesh tract with his uncle Kandhal and carved out a new state there, naming his capital after himself in 1488.
Read the full explanation →Jaipur was founded in 1727 by which Kachhwaha ruler?
- A.Raja Bharmal
- B.Man Singh I
- C.Sawai Jai Singh II
- D.Sawai Pratap Singh
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He decided that the cramped hill capital of Amer could not hold a growing state, and in 1727 he laid out Jaipur on level ground as a planned city of straight streets and rectangular blocks, with Vidyadhar Bhattacharya as its planner.
Read the full explanation →Which ruler of Amer was the first Rajput ruler of Rajasthan to accept an alliance with Akbar in 1562?
- A.Raja Bharmal
- B.Rawal Jaisal
- C.Rao Ratan Singh
- D.Mirza Raja Jai Singh I
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In 1562 Bharmal of Amer, pressed by rivals and by imperial officers in the region, offered his submission to Akbar and sealed it with a marriage alliance; his daughter, known as Mariam-uz-Zamani, became the mother of Jahangir.
Read the full explanation →The Junagarh fort of Bikaner was built in 1589 by which ruler?
- A.Rao Bika
- B.Raja Rai Singh
- C.Maharaja Ganga Singh
- D.Rao Jodha
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Rai Singh of Bikaner was a leading general of Akbar, served in Gujarat and the Deccan, and used the wealth and prestige of that service to raise the Junagarh fort in 1589 on the plain beside his capital.
Read the full explanation →Jaisalmer was founded in 1156 by Rawal Jaisal, who belonged to which Rajput clan?
- A.Bhati
- B.Hada
- C.Naruka
- D.Deora
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The Bhati Rajputs held the western desert, first at Lodurva, and Rawal Jaisal shifted to the Trikuta hill in 1156 to found Jaisalmer, where his successors built the yellow sandstone Sonar Quila that is still inhabited.
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