The Story of Jaipur, Part 4 : Brother’s Keeper
Young Jai Singh was quite pleased with himself. At the age of twenty, he had recaptured his kingdom from the Mughal Empire and symbolically declared his independence by performing the Vajpay Yagna, an ancient ritual reserved for absolute monarchs. Â In the eyes of the Rajputs, the House of Amber had regained much of its lost …