India 15 - Rajasthan (Chapter)

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and in 2010 it was added to India’s list of
Unesco World Heritage Sites.
Jai Singh liked astronomy even more than
he liked war and town planning. Before con-
structing the observatory he sent scholars
abroad to study foreign constructs. He built

five observatories in total, and this is the
largest and best preserved (it was restored
in 1901). Others are in Delhi, Varanasi and
Ujjain. No traces of the fifth, the Mathura
observatory, remain.

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