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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Sawaii Jai Singh was however, aiming for a clearer picture of the entire sky and the systems that governed it, for which his Yantras were eminently suitable. Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Jantar mantar: Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh’s Observatory in Delhi. Jai Singh was born in 1688 at Amber in the region of Rajasthan that is now Jaipur.

  4. Sawai Jai Singh. From a young age, the Rajput ruler Sawai Jai Singh had a great interest in the social and political conflict of the different states of the British India Region; Sawai Jai Singh was very bright in war culture and he was also very wise in the context of social and political issues

  5. Sawai Jai Singh, the statesman astronomer of 18th century India, designed instruments, built observatories, prepared Zīj, and sent a fact-finding scientific mission to Europe. His high-precision instruments were designed to measure time and angles with accuracies of ± 2 second, and ±1’ of arc respectively.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Sawai Jai Singh II, the remarkable Monarch of Jaipur, was a mathematician, an astronomer, and a town planner par excellence. He set up the famous observatories known as Jantar Mantars and built the city of Jaipur.

  9. Dec 24, 2016 · Rājā Sawāʾi 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.

  10. Abstract: Sawai Jai Singh, the statesman astronomer of 18th century India, designed instruments, built observa­ tories, prepared Zij, and sent a fact-finding scientific