City Palace (Chandra Mahal), Jaipur (1885)

1885 Jaipur, India

The Chandra Mahal, the seven-story palace at the heart of Jaipur's City Palace complex, is shown here in 1885, decades after the complex was built by Jaipur's founding maharaja in the eighteenth century.

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