
Palace in Udaipur
Perched on the Bansdara peak of the Aravalli Hills, roughly 944 feet above Udaipur, Sajjangarh Palace was never meant to be lived in. Maharana Sajjan Singh commissioned it in 1884 with a singular, almost quixotic ambition — to build an astronomical observatory high enough to watch the monsoon clouds roll in over the lakes below. He died a year later, at twenty-five, and the palace was never completed. What remains is a shell of golden-yellow sandstone, three stories tall, standing on the high...
















