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Chhatri, the Glossary

Chhatri are semi-open, elevated, dome-shaped pavilions used as an element in Indo-Islamic architecture and Indian architecture.^[1]

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Agra

Agra is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow.

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Akodia

Akodia is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in Shajapur District in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Alampur, Madhya Pradesh

Alampur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bhind district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Alwar

Alwar (Rajasthani Pronunciation: əlʋəɾ) is a city located in India's National Capital Region and the administrative headquarters of Alwar District in the state of Rajasthan.

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Architecture of India

Indian architecture is rooted in the history, culture, and religion of India. Chhatri and architecture of India are architecture in India.

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The architecture of the Indian state of Rajasthan has usually been a regional variant of the style of Indian architecture prevailing in north India at the time. Chhatri and architecture of Rajasthan are Rajasthani architecture.

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Arnos Vale Cemetery

Arnos Vale Cemetery (also written Arno's Vale Cemetery), in Arnos Vale, Bristol, England, was established in 1837.

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Bada Bagh

Bada Bagh, also called Barabagh (lit. "grand garden" in Hindustani) is a garden complex located about six kilometers north of Jaisalmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Chhatri and Bada Bagh are cenotaphs in India.

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Berar Sultanate

The Berar Sultanate was an early modern Indian kingdom in the Deccan, ruled by the Imad Shahi dynasty.

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Bhadresar

Bhadresar or Bhadreshwar is a village in Mundra Taluka, Kutch district of Gujarat, India.

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Bharatpur, Rajasthan

Bharatpur is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, south of India's capital, New Delhi, from Rajasthan's capital Jaipur, west of Agra of Uttar Pradesh and from Mathura of Uttar Pradesh.

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Bhuj

Bhuj is a city and the headquarters of Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Bikaner

Bikaner is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Bundi

Bundi is a town in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan state in northwest India.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Chahartaq (architecture)

Chartaq (چارطاق), chahartaq (چهارطاق), chartaqi (چارطاقی), or chahartaqi (چهارطاقی), literally meaning "having four arches", is an architectural unit consisted of four barrel vaults and a dome. Chhatri and chahartaq (architecture) are Islamic architectural elements.

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Chattri, Brighton

The Chattri is a war memorial in the English city of Brighton and Hove.

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Chaurasi Khambon ki Chhatri, Bundi

Chaurasi Khambon ki Chhatri or "84-Pillared Cenotaph" is a chhatri located in Bundi town, Rajasthan, India. Chhatri and Chaurasi Khambon ki Chhatri, Bundi are cenotaphs in India.

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Chetak

Chetak or Cetak is the name given in traditional literature to the horse ridden by Maharana Pratap at the Battle of Haldighati, fought on 18 June 1576 at Haldighati, in the Aravalli Mountains of Rajasthan, in western India.

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Chetak Smarak

Chetak Smarak, also called Chetak Samadhi, is a memorial to Maharana Pratap's famed steed Chetak, in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Churu, Rajasthan

Churu is a city in the desert region of Rajasthan state of India.

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Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.

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Deccan sultanates

The Deccan sultanates is a historiographical term referring to five late medieval to early modern Indian kingdoms on the Deccan Plateau between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range that were created from the disintegration of the Bahmani Sultanate and ruled by Muslim dynasties: namely Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Dundlod

Dundlod (formerly Shivgarh) is a town in Nawalgarh tehsil Jhunjhunu district in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan in India, about seven kilometers north of Nawalgarh, Rajasthan.

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Fatehpur, Rajasthan

Fatehpur is a city in the Sikar district of Indian state Rajasthan.

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Gohad

Gohad is a city and a municipality in Bhind district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Govardhan Hill

Govardhana Hill (गोवर्धन), also called Mount Govardhana and Giriraj, is a sacred Hindu site in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India on an 8 km long hill located in the area of Govardhan and Radha Kund, which is about from Vrindavan.

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Gwalior

Gwalior (Hindi) is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities.

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Haldighati

Haldighati is a historical mountain pass between Khamnore and Balicha village situated at Aravalli Range of Rajasthan in western India which connects Rajsamand and Udaipur districts.

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Haveli

A haveli is a traditional townhouse, mansion, or manor house, in the Indian subcontinent, usually one with historical and architectural significance, and located in a town or city. Chhatri and haveli are Mughal architecture elements and Rajasthani architecture.

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Hindaun

Hindaun is a city and municipality, near city of Karauli in Karauli district, Rajasthan, India. It has a population of 105690 and is governed by a municipal council. In the vicinity are the Aravalli and Vindhya mountainous ranges.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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House of Holkar

The Holkars (pronunciation: ɦo(ː)ɭkəɾ) were the ruling house of the Indore State of the Maratha Confederacy, and earlier held the rank of subahdar under Peshwa Baji Rao I. When the Maratha Confederacy began to weaken due to internal clashes, the Holkars declared themselves the rulers of Indore in Central India, existing as an autonomous member of the Maratha Confederacy until 1818.

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Humayun's Tomb

Humayun's tomb (Persian: Maqbara-i Humayun) is the tomb of Mughal emperor, Mirza Nasir al-Din Muhammad commonly known as Humayun situated in Delhi, India.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indo-Islamic architecture

Indo-Islamic architecture is the architecture of the Indian subcontinent produced by and for Islamic patrons and purposes.

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Indore

Indore (ISO: Iṁdaura) is the largest and most populous city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Jadeja

Jadeja (Gujarati, Sindhi:, or Jāṛejā) is a Rajput clan that inhabits the Indian state of Gujarat and the Tharparkar district of Sindh, Pakistan.

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Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer, nicknamed "The Golden city", is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, located west of the state capital Jaipur.

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Jalsen Talab

Jalsen Reservoir is a famous pond in Hindaun City, Hindaun Block in Rajasthan, India.

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Jaswant Ki Chhatri

Jaswant Singh ki chhatri (or Jaswant ki chatri) is a domed pillared pavilion-shaped cenotaph, common to Rajasthani architecture, built in by Jaswant Singh Rathore in memory of his elder brother Amar Singh Rathore's wife, Rani Hada. Chhatri and Jaswant Ki Chhatri are cenotaphs in India.

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Jaswant Singh II

Jaswant Singh II, GCSI, (1838 – 11 October 1895) was Maharaja of Jodhpur from 4 February 1873 – 11 October 1895.

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Jaswant Thada

The Jaswant Thada is a cenotaph located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Jhunjhunu

Jhunjhunu is a city in the state of Rajasthan in northern India and the administrative headquarters of Jhunjhunu District.

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Jodhpur

Jodhpur is the second-largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan after its capital Jaipur.

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Lake Pichola

Lake Pichola, situated in Udaipur city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, is an artificial fresh water lake, created in the year 1362, named after the nearby Picholi village.

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Laxmangarh

Laxmangarh is a town in the Sikar district of Rajasthan state in India.

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List of state leaders in 18th-century South Asia and its predecessor states

This is a list of state leaders in the 18th century (1701–1800) These polities are often sovereign states and then vassal states under a subsidiary alliance to the Maratha Confederacy or British East India Company.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.

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Mahansar

Mahansar is a village in the Shekhawati region in Rajasthan, India.

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Maharana Pratap

Pratap Singh I (9 May 1540 – 19 January 1597), popularly known as Maharana Pratap, was a king of Kingdom of Mewar, in north-western India in the present-day state of Rajasthan.

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Maheshwar

Maheshwar is a town, near Khargone city in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh state, in central India.

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Mandore

Mandore is a suburb and historical town located 9 km north of Jodhpur city in the Jodhpur district of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Marathi people

The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.

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Mazar (mausoleum)

A mazār (مَزَار), also transliterated as mazaar, also known as marqad (مَرْقَد) or in the Maghreb as ḍarīḥ (ضَرِيْح), is a mausoleum or shrine in some places of the world, typically that of a saint or notable religious leader.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Mughal architecture

Mughal architecture is the type of Indo-Islamic architecture developed by the Mughals in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries throughout the ever-changing extent of their empire in the Indian subcontinent.

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Mukundgarh

Mukundgarh is a small city and a municipality in Nawalgarh tehsil Jhunjhunu district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nagaur

Nagaur (also Nagor and Nagore) is a city and municipal council in Nagaur district of the state of Rajasthan in India.

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Orchha

Orchha is a town, near the city of Niwari in the Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh state, India.

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Panch Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri

Panch Mahal is a palace in Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Parasrampura

Parasrampura is a town in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan in India.

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Pavilion

In architecture, pavilion has several meanings;.

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajput painting

Rajput painting, painting of the regional Hindu courts during the Mughal era, roughly from the end of the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century.

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Ramgarh Shekhawati

Ramgarh or Ramgarh Shekhawati is a town and a municipality in Ramgarh tehsil of Sikar district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Ranoji Scindia

Ranoji Shinde was the founder of the Scindia dynasty, a Maratha clan that produced outstanding Maratha military commanders during the 18th century.

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Roof lantern

A roof lantern is a daylighting architectural element.

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Sawai Jai Singh

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.

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Shekhawat

Shekhawat is a clan of Rajputs found mainly in Shekhawati region of Rajasthan.

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Shekhawati

Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India. Chhatri and Shekhawati are Rajasthani architecture.

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Shivpuri

Shivpuri is a city and a municipality in Shivpuri district, located in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Shrine of Ibrahim

The Shrine of Ibrahim, known locally as Lal Shahbaz Dargah, was built around 1160 in Bhadresar in Kutch district, Gujarat, India.

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Shujalpur

Shujalpur is a city and a municipality in Shajapur district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Suraj Mal

Maharaja Suraj Mal (13 February 1707 – 25 December 1763) (Hindi: महाराजा सूरजमल) was a Jat ruler of Bharatpur in present-day state of Rajasthan.

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Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Udaipur

Udaipur (Hindi) (ISO 15919: Udayapura) is a city in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, about south of the state capital Jaipur.

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Udaipurwati

Udaipurwati is a small town and a municipality in Neem Ka Thana in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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