"Curiously, an astonishing number of names of towns and villages in western Rajasthan (the heart of the Thar Desert) h…"

"The pagod moulders on Mokundra's plain, And 'mid its ivied towers the winds complain."

"It is strange but true that the type and style of bangles that women wear in Rajasthan today, or the vermilion that t…"

"When the Jasalmir territory comes to be regularly surveyed, I apprehend that some interesting and valuable discoverie…"

"During the British colonial period, Jaipur is again especially interesting because it remained the capital of semi-au…"

"Founded in the early eighteenth century, it is pre-colonial in inception – designed sufficiently recently to ensure t…"

"The city palace is a complex of courtyards, gardens and buildings right in the center of the old city, enlarged and a…"

"The ascents throughout the palace are not by stairs, but by inclined planes of very easy slope, and certainly less fa…"

"The Hindu architects produced buildings incomparably more rich and interesting as works of art. I have not visited So…"

"we reached the town, which almost entirely consisted of temples, and had few inhabitants but grim and ghastly Yogis, …"