Jahān’s time‚ and reworked extensively with marble and pietra dura inlay. Notable buildings in the fort include the Pearl Mosque or Motī Masjid‚ the Dīwān-e-’Ām and Dīwān-e-Khās (halls of public and private audience)‚ Jahāngīr’s Palace‚ Khās Mahal‚ Shīsh Mahal (mirrored palace)‚ and the Musamman Burj.[citation needed] The forbidding exteriors of this fort conceal an inner paradise. The fort is crescent shaped‚ flattened on the east with a long‚ nearly straight wall facing the river. It has a total
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105 carat diamond‚ one of the biggest the world had ever seen. It was owned by a rich king this is only picture but the true story of how they got this is still hidden by British troops Another Thing the English did was that they ruined the Taj Mahal. When the
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by the Nayakas of Tanjavur in around 1550 AD. It was later taken over by the Marathas. That’s why it is sometimes called the Maratha Palace of Tanjavur. The Palace complex consists of Sardar Mahal‚ two Durbar Halls‚ Queen’s courtyard‚ Raja Raja Chola Art Gallery‚ Sarfoji’s Saraswati Mahal Library‚ Sangeet Mahal and the Schwarz Church. On the southern side of the complex is a Vimana like building 190 feet tall with eight storeys. This building‚ called Goudagopuram‚ served as the watch
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from the typical architecture you see in Hampi. The exact function of this is not surely known. Located inside the Zenana enclosure‚ most probably this was a socializing area for the women folks in the royal family. Also known as Chitragani Mahal and Kamal Mahal‚ this falls under the secular or nonreligious categories of structures in Hampi. It’s peculiar to note that this is one of the beautiful structures that were left undamaged during the siege of the city. However there are some signs of mutilations
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out the project work under my supervision. SIGNATURE Mr. ANUPAM SHARMA (Sales Assistant) Corporate Guide Amber Fort Road‚ Opposite Jal Mahal‚ Jaipur‚ Rajasthan DATE- 5 July 2011 SIGNATURE Dr. Mayank Agarwal (Professor) Jagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS)‚ IP-2&3‚ Phase-IV‚ Sitapura Industrial Area‚ Jaipur. DATE- 5 July 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am grateful
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f. Europe‚ Africa and America treated atlantic slave trade differently. The slavery purchasing was mainly done through Dutch West Indies Company. The need for slaves became so big that the Europeans had to open trade to everyone. Europe made a great profit from slavery. Europeans saw Africans as people below them‚ the process allowed them to justify the purchase of slaves. Most slaves were prisoners of war. Europeans used guns‚ money‚ and horses purchase slaves from the Europeans. Some of the
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of the Tata Group can be traced back to 1868‚[8] when Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata established a trading company dealing in cotton in Bombay (now Mumbai)‚ British India.[9] This was followed by the installation of Empress Mills in Nagpur in 1877. Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay (now Mumbai) was opened for business in 1903. Sir Dorab Tata‚ the eldest son of Jamsetji became the chairman of the group after his fathers
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Architecture Vijayanagara architecture is a vibrant combination of the Chalukya‚ Hoysala‚ Pandya and Chola styles‚ idioms that prospered in previous centuries. Its legacy of sculpture‚ architecture and painting influenced the development of the arts long after the empire came to an end. Its stylistic hallmark is the ornate pillared Kalyanamantapa (marriage hall)‚ Vasanthamantapa (open pillared halls) and the Rayagopura (tower). Artisans used the locally available hard granite because of its durability
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Govinda Sastrulu. They eventually moved to Thanjavur‚ Tamil Nadu. While there is significant dissention as to his exact time‚ historians place him between 1610 and 1745 AD. An extensive research done with the help of archives preserved in Saraswati Mahal Library has helped place the time closer to 1650 AD – 1745 AD‚ and he reportedly lived a long life. He mastered music at a very early age and studied Puranas‚ Bhagavata Purana and other Sanskrit works. He renounced family at a very early age and took
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Final Paper Dr. Howard HL 120 Doug Spada AIDS in Kenya Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east‚ Ethiopia to the north‚ Tanzania to the south‚ Uganda to the west‚ and Sudan to the northwest. In the north‚ the land is arid; the southwestern corner is in the fertile Lake Victoria Basin; and a length of the eastern depression of the Great Rift Valley separates western highlands form
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