Jai Vilas Mahal

Jai Vilas Mahal

The Jai Vilas Mahal (or The Jai Vilas Palace), Gwalior
General information
Architectural style Italian, Corinthian and Tuscan architecture
Town or city Gwalior
Country India
Completed 1874
Cost

₹1 crore in 1874

Now about ₹1200 Crore ($200 Million)
Client H. H. Maharaja Jayaji Rao Scindia (Shinde)
Technical details
Size 12,40,771 square feet
Website
Jai Vilas Palace

The Jai Vilas Mahal (Hindi: जय विलास महल), also known as the Jai Vilas Palace), is a nineteenth-century palace in Gwalior, India. It was established in 1874 by Jayajirao Scindia, the Maharaja of Gwalior and is still the residence of his descendants the former royal Maratha Scindia dynasty. Raja Jiwaji was fond of various furnitures and so he bought many various kind of furnitues and accessories for decorating the palace, from different places like Italy, England, New York, Egypt, Japan, China and much more.His great grandson was Madhav 1. He had two spouses and has been the member of Lok Sabha of the Indian parliament 9 times. He was also a great golf and crickt player. He has studied from some college in Oxford, UK. He died in 2001 due to an accident. He has two kids : one daughter and one son. They are now the living people of the dynasty.[1] The European architecture of the palace was designed and built by Sir Michael Filose (known as Mukhel Sahib) under the guidance of Jayajirao to welcome Edward VII.[2]

The palace has 400 rooms from which exclusively 40 rooms are transformed into Jiwaji Rao Scindia Museum. Two Belgian chandeliers at Durbar Hall weighing 7 tonnes each are believed to be one of the largest in the world.[3]

Priyadarshini Raje Scindia is the patron and trustee of the museum.[4]

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The Durbar (royal court) Hall inside the palace
H. H. Maharaja Jayaji Rao Scindia (Shinde), the Maratha Maharaja of Gwalior, who built the Jai Vilas Palace

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References

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  1. ↑ "Jai Vilas Palace, Gwalior". must see india. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Hanging marvels". Tribune India. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Gwalior: Palaces, fort and a lot of history". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Get In Touch". Jai Vilas Museum. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
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