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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 Mughal Empire as well as the Kachwaha Rajput ruler of the Kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur).
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 city of Jaipur and made it his capital. He became the ruler of Amber at the age of 11, after the untimely death of his father, Mirza Raja Bishan Singh, on 31 December 1699. [4]
Jai Singh would have received his early instruction in astronomy through the use of the astrolabe, and in fact one of the early instruments at his observatory in Jaipur is the Yantraraja, a great Astrolabe approximately 8 feet in height.
Jul 23, 2024 · Sawai Jai Singh was the Hindu Rajput ruler of the kingdom of Amber. Read all about Sawai Jai Singh Early Life, Observatories and Jantar Mantar for UPSC Exam Preparation.
At the age of 10, Jai Singh I became the Raja of Amber and the head of the Kachwaha Rajputs. His military career spans the full reign of Shah Jahan and the first half of Aurangzeb's reign. Jai Singh's first step in his rise to greatness took place on the accession of Shah Jahan (1627).
Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh (November 3, 1688 – September 21, 1743) was the Rajput ruler of the kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur). He was born at Amber (now Jaipur), the capital of the Kachwahas. He became ruler of Amber at the age of 11 after his father Maharaja Bishan Singh died on 31 December 1699.
Nov 14, 2023 · About: Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh was the Rajput ruler of the kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur). He was born at Amber (now Jaipur), the capital of the Kachwahas. He became ruler of Amber at the age of 11 after his father Maharaja Bishan Singh died on 31 December 1699.
Jan 1, 2016 · Jai Singh, or Jai Singh Sawai (Jaya Siṃha Savā’ī), the eighteenth century statesman-astronomer of India, was born on November 3, 1688 to the royal house of Amber, in the present state of Rajasthan, India.
Rājā Sawā'i Jai Singh II built the largest and fairly accurate masonry astronomical instruments ever constructed in India; he was also influential in introducing early modern European astronomical sciences to the Indian subcontinent.
In 1728, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II built his new, magnificently designed capital Jaipur, lying about 200 km southwest of Delhi and constructed by combining the features of the ancient Hindu treatise on architecture, the Shilpa Shastra and plans of many European cities of the time with his own ideas.
