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Title:
Volume 30 - Issue 4
Date:
1977
Table of contents:
- p. Front and Back [Advertisements]: [Photographs: Jaipur]
- p. 2-8 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 2-8]: Anand, Mulk Raj, Homage to Jaipur [Editorial] | This special issue of Marg is a homage to Sawai Jai Singh's vision, and his planning, building, and decorating of the city of Jaipur. Some aspects of life in Jaipur today are captured by the photographer Raghubir Singh.
- p. 9-24 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 9-24]: Anand, Mulk Raj, An Epistle Dedicatory to the Master-builder Sawai Jai Singh | The epistle praises Sawai Jai Singh for his diplomacy with the Mughal rulers Aurangzeb, Bahadur Shah, and Muhammad Shah, his researches in astronomy, ayurveda, geography, architecture, and planning of the town of Jaipur.
- p. 25-26 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 25-26]: Roy, Ashim Kumar, Architecture: The Dream and the Plan | Sawai Jai Singh (1700-43) built his new capital Jaipur as a planned city. The article describes the town plan, which was made by Jai Singh with the assistance of his ministers and officials.
- p. 27-34 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 27-34]: Album -- Amber to Badal Mahal | Photographs of the Amber Palace and fort.
- p. 35-58 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 35-58]: Davar, Satish, A Filigree City Spun out of Nothingness | After an introduction to the history of the land of Rajasthan, its people and the site plan (and implementation) of Jaipur is discussed in detail, with reference to the chief architect Vidyadhar Bhattacharya's design on the traditional principle of 9 squares and his planning of the city to suit its
- p. 59-68 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 59-68]: Anand, Mulk Raj, Jantar Mantar: Time, Space and Deity | Sawai Jai Singh, who founded 5 astronomical observations, accepted the Hindu idea of the cosmos, and attempted to study man's place in the universe. The article describes the various instruments (yantras) constructed in the observatory complex in Jaipur.
- p. 69-76 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 69-76]: Kang, Kanwarjit, Album of Wall Paintings | Murals of the 16th-19th centuries at Amber, Bairat, Jaipur, and other places show that the wall painting tradition was in vogue in Rajasthan, and received royal patronage. The Mughal influences were fully absorbed under Sawai Jai Singh (1699-1743). The techniques used in Rajasthan were siah-kalam and oil painting, but mainly a fresco-technique.
- p. 77-94, 102 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 77-94, 102 Notes and References on page 102]: Das, Asok Kumar, Miniatures | The artistic heritage of the Amber-Jaipur region is known from the first quarter of the 17th century. There were regional painting schools, and the Jaipur kings -- Mirza Raja Jai Singh (1621-67), Raja Ram Singh I, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh (1699-1743) and his successors -- played a significant role in their development.
- p. 95-99 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 95-99]: Chandramani, Costumes and Textiles | An account of the types of garments and materials common in Jaipur in the 18th century, in the time of Sawai Jai Singh and his successors.
- p. 100-102 + 1 unnumbered leaf after p. 102 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur; Pages - 100-102]: Brij Bhushan, Jamila, Enamels and Jewellery | A description of the manufacturing process and motifs of the enameled ornaments of Jaipur.
- p. 102 [Also in - Homage to Jaipur]: Bhatnagar, V.S., Chronology of Jaipur Incorporating Culture Chart | A chronological chart of Jaipur, incorporating a list of works of poets, writers, architects, astronomers, and painters between 966-1803.