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    Sawai Jai Singh II (3 November 1688 – 21 September 1743), was the 29th Kachwaha Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Amber, who later founded the fortified...
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    Sawai Madho Singh I (20 May 1728 – 5 March 1768) was the Kachwaha Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Jaipur. He was the younger son of Maharaja Sawai Jai...
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    suspected of helping Shivaji escape from Mughal captivity in 1664. Sawai Jai Singh II became the ruler during the decline of the Mughal Empire. He successfully...
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    Hon Colonel. HH Raj Rajeshwar Bharat Dharma Prabhakar Maharaja Shri Sawai Sir Jai Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev Bahadur GCSI GCIE (14 June 1882 – 19...
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    Prithviraj Singh I Bharmal Bhagwant Das Man Singh I Mirza Raja Jai Singh I Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II Maharaja Ram Singh I Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh I Maharaja...
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    ruler of Jaipur from 1835 until 1880, succeeding after the death of Sawai Jai Singh III. He became the ruler of Jaipur at the age of 16 months after his...
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    Sawai Jai Singh III (25 April 1819 – 6 February 1835), was the Kachwaha-Rajput ruler of Jaipur. He was born posthumously after the sudden death of his...
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    Major General Maharaja Sawai Governor Sir Man Singh II GCSI GCIE (born Sawai Mor Mukut Singh; 21 August 1912 – 24 June 1970) was an Indian prince, government...
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    the establishment of the city of Jaipur under the reign of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, who moved his court to Jaipur from Amber, in 1727. Jaipur remained...
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    Mirza Raja Jai Singh I (15 July 1611 – 28 August 1667) was the senior most general ("Mirza Raja") and a high ranking mansabdar at the imperial court of...
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    alliance with Amber, sealing his friendship by giving his daughter to Sawai Jai Singh of Jaipur in matrimony. The kingdoms of Udaipur, Amber and Marwar,...
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    the second son of Sawai Jai Singh II and elder half brother of his immediate successor Sawai Madho Singh I. After the death of Jai Singh, his 25-year-old...
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    The structure was built in 1799 by the Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, grandson of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the founder of the city of Jhunjhunu in the state...
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    collection of 19 astronomical instruments built by the Rajput king Sawai Jai Singh, the founder of Jaipur, Rajasthan. The monument was completed in 1734...
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  • eldest surviving son of his father Sawai Madho Singh I and grandson of Sawai Jai Singh II. Maharaja Sawai Prithvi Singh II was six years old when he ascended...
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    scheme of its buildings in old city. Jaipur was founded in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh II, the Kachhwaha Rajput ruler of Amer, after whom the city is named...
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    for a short span of time, rejuvenated by his great-grandson Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II in the beginning of 18th century. After the incomplete Mughal invasion...
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    Aurangzeb. He was succeeded by Sawai Jai Singh II . On the death of his grandfather Ramsingh I, the 16-year-old Bishan Singh returned to Amer with his Kachwaha...
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    until the Kachwahas shifted their capital to Jaipur during the time of Sawai Jai Singh II, in 1727. In the medieval period, Amer was known as Dhundar (meaning...
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  • was fought between Sawai Jai Singh and the Marathas under Kanhoji Bhonsle and Khanderao Dabhade. There were many troubles for Jai Singh II when he was the...
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  •  31. ISBN 9788185176482. Bhatnagar, V. S. (1974). Life and Times of Sawai Jai Singh, 1688-1743. Impex India. p. 6. Khan, Refaqat Ali (1976). The Kachhwahas...
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    capital of Rajasthan state in India, was founded in 1727 by Maharaj Sawai Jai Singh II, who ruled Jaipur State from 1699–1744. He consulted several books...
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  • kingdom in India; also known as Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh Jai Singh III (1819–1835), Maharaja of Jaipur State Jai Singh Kanheya (1712–1793), the founder and...
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    Radha. The deities of the temple were brought from Vrindavan by Raja Sawai Jai Singh II, the founder of Jaipur. This Vaishnav temple is considered to be...
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    of five built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1723 onwards, revising the calendar and astronomical tables. Jai Singh, born in 1688 into a royal...
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  • Devarshi Shrikrishna Bhatt (1675–1761), a contemporary of the Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur, was an 18th-century Sanskrit poet, historian, scholar...
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    Together, Maharana Amar Singh, Ajit Singh and Sawai Jai Singh marched upon Jodhpur in 1708 and expelled Mehrab Khan and placed Ajit Singh on the throne. Later...
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    current structure was built by Man Singh I. An observatory is said to have been added in the complex by Sawai Jai Singh (1699–1743), however it has been...
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  • Maharaja Ajit Singh, Princess Indira Kanwar In 1718, Ajit Singh of Marwar got his daughter married to the Raja of Jaipur, Sawai Jai Singh to garner his...
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  • brought to power as Peshwa by the treaty of Salbai in 1782. Sawai Jai Singh was given title of Sawai at the age of eleven by the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb in...
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