The lime-washed inner courtyard of the haveli with tiers of carved balconies

The haveli

A courtyard house, about three hundred years old, in the old city.

Inside the haveli

Havelis were built inward. From the street you see a carved door and a row of shuttered openings and very little else. The house turns instead towards its courtyard, which brings light and air down through the floors.

Gangaur Palace still works that way. Cusped arches frame the galleries. Jharokhas lean out over the lane. The stair climbs past painted pillars to the roof.

The jharokha is the detail the rooms are named for: a window carried out from the wall on stone brackets, screened, deep enough to sit in.

Looking up through the haveli's open courtyard at tiers of carved white balconies and coloured glass windows
The courtyard, rising through three floors
A cusped arch doorway with a painted red border opening onto an inner passage of the haveli
A cusped-arch doorway
The entrance hall with a mirror-worked painted pillar, seating and the stair to the upper floors
The entrance hall and painted pillar
The haveli's upper balconies lit after dark, arched openings and stone brackets picked out against the night
The balconies after dark
Shelves of miniature paintings, carved figures and handicrafts in the ground-floor shop
A cusped arch doorway with a painted red border opening onto an inner passage

The ground floor and the terrace

Behind the street door the ground floor holds a small shop of miniature paintings, carved figures and textiles, and the stair that every guest climbs several times a day.

Three floors up it comes out onto the terrace. Whitewashed roofs step down to Lake Pichola from there, the City Palace sits at the left of the view, and the Aravallis close the far side of the water.

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The illuminated balconies and arched windows of the haveli at night

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