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Your Royal Heritage
Accommodation In Rajasthan
Spread across the erstwhile princely state
of Rajasthan are a large number of palaces
and estates that were once home to families
that ruled over India. These bastions of
history, bristling with memories, some
pleasant others less so, seats of intrigue,
of coronations royal residences where
durbars were once staged, were abandoned
with the passage of time as modern,
independent India surged ahead on the road
to progress.
Since the government had withdrawn the
privileges granted under the privy purse,
maintaining these magnificent properties,
each individually created over centuries,
adorned with the best paintings and
furniture, and representing different
periods of architectural history, were in
danger of falling to ruin, even though most
continued to serve as residences for the
former members of the royal families.
Of the 22 princely states and innumerable
thikanas or seats of residence of the
aristocracy, a small clutch of them have
been converted into heritage hotels. These
former royal residence, which member of the
family have continued to inhabit for
generations altogether, are repositories of
a gracious lifestyle, a way of living that
has all but passed into the realms of
fantasy. With their recent conversion into
hotels, though they have managed to keep
their flavour as medieval homes intact,
these once-forbidden deras have opened their
doors to the world.
And in doing so, they have ensured that
the properties continue to be maintained in
a befitting manner, and that a way of living
that was losing ground to the 21st century,
has been preserved for a little while
longer. Your Royal Accommodation While some
of the larger palaces converted into hotels
three even four decades ago, others have
followed suit since the last decade. These
include a number of smaller forts, palaces,
castles, aristocratic homes and havelis.
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