Vidyadhar Bagh

This guide to Vidyadhar Bagh in Jaipur tells the story of Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, a Bengali accountant at the Amber court whom Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II tasked in 1727 with designing an entirely new capital from nothing. You'll hear how he drew on ancient Sanskrit texts and Greek geometry to lay out Jaipur's nine-sector grid, and why a city planned around him took over two centuries to build him a garden in his own name. It traces the lattice screens and painted pavilions planted here in 1988.