Circuit House Rd, near Umaid Bhawan Museum, Cantt Area, Jodhpur, Rajasthan 342006, India
We arrived at Umaid Bhawan Palace under a cloudless sky, Chittar sandstone rising gold into windows and balconies beneath a ribbed central dome and flanking pyramidal towers. A low wall of the same stone ran before a clipped green hedge; figures in deep maroon robes stood tiny at the entrance. Maharaja Umaid Singh began it in 1929 as famine relief, employing thousands of Marwar labourers until 1943, among the last gr…
