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	Saudi Aramco World : Jai Singh and the Jantar Mantar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jai Singh was born in 1688, a year after the publication of Newton's Principia, and in 1700, when he was 11 years old, he succeeded his father as ruler of the small Rajasthani state of Amber.
		Jai Singh was an accomplished scholar of both Sanskrit and Persian at an early age, and thus had direct access to both the Indian and the Islamic scientific traditions.
		Jai Singh claimed to have found an error of half a degree in the position of the moon in Flamsteed, as well as a small error in the times of solar and lunar eclipses.
	saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199102/jai.singh.and.the.jantar.mantar.htm (2824 words)

	Jai Singh I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the tender age of 10 Jai Singh I became the Raja of Amber and the head of the Kachwaha Rajputs.
		By defeating the Meo robber tribes in the north of Amber, Jai Singh further increased the size of his ancestral kingdom.
		Jai Singh and his men were stuck far in the east while their homes and families in the west were at the mercy of Aurangzeb's troops——so he and Diler Khan advised Sulaiman to flee while they submitted to the new emperor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jai_Singh_I (1606 words)

	Sardar Jai Singh Kanhaiya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Amar Singh Kingra or Sanghania was the founder of Kanhaiya Misal.
		Jai Singh arranged the marriage of his associate Haqiqat Singh's son Jaimal Singh to Sahib Kaur, daughter of Maharaja Amar Singh of Patiala.
		Jai Singh marched to Sirhind and participated in the battle where Zain Khan was defeated and killed on January 14, 1764.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /warriors/jaisingh.htm (1240 words)

	Misal Kanhaiya
		ANHAIYA MISL was founded by Jai Singh, a Sandhu Jatt of the village of Kahna, 21 km southwest of Lahore on the road to Firozpur.
		Jai Singh received the vows of the Khalsa at the hands of Nawab Kapur Singh and joined the derah or jatha of Amar Singh Kingra.
		On Jai Singh's death in 1793 at the age of 81, control of the Kanhaiya clan passed into the hands of his daughter-in-law Sada Kaur, his son Gurbakhsh Singh having predeceased him.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/events/m-kanhaiya.html (666 words)

	Jai Singh II of Amber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sawai Jai Singh was the first Hindu ruler in centuries to perform the ancient Vedic ceremonies like the Vajpeya sacrifice and the Ashwamedha sacrifice (both in 1734)——on both occasions vast amounts were distributed in charity.
		It was at Jai Singh’s insistence that the hated [[jaziya]] tax, imposed on the Hindu population by Aurangzeb (1679), was finally abolished by the Emperor Muhammad Shah in 1720.
		Jai Singh’s greatest achievement was the construction of Jaipur city, which later became the capital of the modern Indian state of Rajasthan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jai_Singh_II (1557 words)

	Tale of an undertrial
		In March 1976, Jai Singh, a resident of Bubkar village in Yamunanagar district of Haryana, was arrested by the police and charged with the murder of his mother.
		Jai Singh's family first suspected that he was mentally ill in 1970, three years after he got married.
		Jai Singh's case was not taken up until October 2003, when Justice A.S. Anand, the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on a visit to the Ambala Jail, came across the case and asked the Superintendent of the jail to send the details of undertrials in the jail to the Commission.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl2125/stories/20041217005003000.htm (1392 words)

	The Royal Family Of Jaipur
		Jai Singh I was born on 15th July 1611 AD and at the age of ten, ascended the throne of Amber in 1621 AD.
		At the age of 12 Sawai Jai Singh II was enthroned at Amber in the year 1700 AD and had to fight at Khelna, Panhala and other places in the Deccan at the behest of Emperor Aurangzeb.
		Sawai Bhawani Singh MVC, of Jaipur ji is the eldest son of late H.H. Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur.
	www.royalfamilyjaipur.com /j_rul.htm (1259 words)

	Jaipur,royal camps
		Jaipur is the first planned city of India which was founded by Maharaja Jai Singh II in the 18th century.
		These are the cenotaphs of the royal family, including that of Jai Singh, made in white marble with intricately carved peacocks.
		Jai Ban, the largest cannon in Asia, is inside the fort.
	www.royalcamps.com /jaipur.php (339 words)

	Jantar Mantar, the Mughal observatory, Jaipur, India - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, ...
		Jai Singh was passionate about two things-the arts and the sciences, chiefly astronomy.
		Jai Singh offered to rectify the then available astronomical tables, an offer that was readily accepted by the Mughal emperor.
		Jai Singh's idea was to create a renaissance in practical astronomy among the Indian masses and practicing astronomers.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /jaipur_jantar_mantar.htm (407 words)

	Historical Sikh Events at Gateway to Sikhism:Kanhaiya Misl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		KANHAIYA MISL was founded by Jai Singh, a Sandhu Jatt of the village of Kahna, 21 km southwest of Lahore on the road to Firozpur.
		In 1781 Jai Singh and his associate Haqiqat Singh led an expedition to Jammu and received a sum of 3,00,000 rupees as tribute from its new ruler, Brij Raj Dev.
		The leader of another section of the Kanhaiya misl was Haqiqat Singh, son of Baghel Singh, a Siddhu Jatt, hailing from the village of Julka, near Kahna, the birthplace of Jai Singh.
	allaboutsikhs.com /events/mkanhaiya.htm (674 words)

	Rani Sada Kaur - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
		Rani Sada Kaur (1762-1832) was the mother-in-law of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and was the daughter of Dasaundha Singh Gill, was married to Gurbaksh Singh, son of Jai Singh, leader of the Kanhaiya clan.
		Jai Singh was defeated and his son, Gurbaksh Singh, husband of Sada Kaur, was killed.
		On his return from the cis-Sutlej campaign in 1807, Ranjit Singh was presented by Sada Kaur with twin sons, Sher Singh and Tara Singh, born to her daughter, Mahitab kaur.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Rani_Sada_Kaur (703 words)

	Sardar Jai Singh Kanhaiya
		mar Singh Kingra or Sanghania was the founder of Kanhaiya Misal.
		His two sons, Jai Singh and Jhanda Singh left their village and first joined the derah of Amar Singh Kingra and then joined the confederacy of Kapur Singh Faizullapuria or Singhpuria about the year 1739, and took pahul from him.
		In the beginning of 1754, Jai Singh, accompanied by Charhat Singh Sukarchakia, entered Lahore through Shah Alami Gate, one dark evening, in the guise of a Muslim and dispossessed the rich merchants and jewellers of their money and valuables.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/warriors/jai_kanhaiya.html (1248 words)

	Compass Advisers -- People -- Principals -- Jai Singh --
		Jai Singh is a Principal based in Compass Advisers' London office and has over 13 years of international investment banking experience, including ten years at Citigroup/SSSB/Salomon Smith Barney in London and New York.
		Singh joined Salomon Brothers' Consumer and Retail investment banking group in New York in 1993 and transferred to the European office in 1995, where he was part of the MandA and Corporate Finance Group, ultimately as a Senior Vice President.
		Singh holds dual bachelors' degrees, having concurrently completed a B.S. degree in Finance at The Wharton School of Business and a B.A. degree in Economics from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.compasspartners.com /people/principals.asp?id=Singh (260 words)

	Sikhnews- Be in touch with Sikhism & Sikh Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She was born to Sardar Dasaunda Singh of Ferozepur District and was married to Sardar Gurbakhsh Singh son of Sardar Jai Singh, jathedar (Head) of the Ghanya Misl.
		Gurbakhsh Singh, son of Jai Singh was fighting on one front independent of his father.
		Jai Singh could not bear the loss of his only son in the battle and immediately gave up the fight.
	www.sikhnewsline.com /asp_files/story11.asp (889 words)

	Ancient India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jai Singh's astronomical observatory may look like a giant playground for grownups, but in 1734, the year of its completion, it was the last outpost of medieval science.
		Sawai Jai Singh, the first Maharaja of Jaipur, succeeded to the throne of Amber in 1700 at the age of thirteen.
		Astronomical Observatory of Jaipur, by Daulat Singh Rajawat.
	www.art-and-archaeology.com /india/jaipur/jan1.html (862 words)

	Sawai Jai Singh and his Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sawai Jai Singh, the statesman-astronomer of India, was born to a royal family on November 3, 1688 in the town of Amber in the state of Rajastan, India.
		Bhāramala's descendants, Māna Singh (1543 - 1614) and Mirzā Raja Jai Singh (1611 - 1667), were highly regarded nobles at the Mughal court and were entrusted with important missions.
		By the time Jai Singh was born, the house of Amber had lost much of its influence at the imperial court, such that Jai Singh's father Raja Biśana Singh or Vişņu Singh (ruled 1689 - 1700) occupied a relatively minor post in the imperial service.
	www.uwfox.uwc.edu /users/vsharma/index.asp (282 words)

	Jantar Mantar jaipur, Jantar Mantar India, Jantar Mantar tour, Jantar Mantar picture, Jantar Mantar tourist attraction, ...
		Jantar Mantar is an astronomical observatory with masonry instruments, built in 1724 by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur.
		Sawai Jai Singh II, a keen astronomer and a noble in the Moghul court, was dissatisfied by the errors of brass and metal astronomical instruments.
		Jai Singh was a great admirer of progresses and research made in the fields of science and technology, but he was passionate about astronomy.
	www.tourtravelworld.com /hot_spots/jaipur/jantar_mantar (800 words)

	Shashi Travels & Tours Pvt. Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Rose Pink city founded by Maharaja Jai Singh II (1693-1743), is the capital of Rajasthan.
		It was commenced by Raja Man Singh in 1600 AD and then completed by Sawai Jai Singh in the eighteenth century.
		The full-length exquisitely carved statue of Sawai Jai Singh in white marble in the center of the circle was erected to pay homage to the founder of Jaipur.
	www.shashitours.com /jaipur.htm (555 words)

	Jai Mahal Palace,Jai Mahal Palace In Jaipur,Jaimahal in Rajasthan India
		When Sawai Man Singh II (1922-1947) took over Jaipur State, Natani ka Bagh became the official residence of the Prime Ministers of Jaipur and continued to be so till 1948.
		Sometime during his reign Man Singh II changed the name of the garden to Jai Mahal in honour either of his second son, Jai or his great ancestor, Sawai Jai Singh II or simply after the city itself.
		Jai Mahal Palace remained unoccupied from 1948 till 1955 when it was converted into one of India’s earliest palace hotels.
	www.indiasite.com /rajasthan/jaipur/jaimahalpalace.html (691 words)

	Jaipur,Jaipur India,Jaipur Tours,Tours to Jaipur,Jaipur Rajasthan Tours,Jaipur Tour Package,Jaipur Tourism,Jaipur India ...
		Built for the ladies of the harem by Sawai Pratap Singh, it enabled ladies of the royal household to be aware of everyday life and royal processions passing through the city without being noticed by anybody.
		Nahargarh means the 'abode of the tigers' which was built by Jai Singh II in 1734 to bolster the defense of Amer.
		Built by Raja Man Singh in 1600 AD, continued by Raja Jai Singh and then completed to its present form by Sawai Jai Singh in the eighteenth century; the fort is a fascinating blend of Hindu and Muslim architecture built in red sandstone and white marble.
	www.toursnewdelhi.com /rajasthan/jaipur-tours.htm (731 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum
		Jai Hari, who is married to Jai Hari Kaur (birth name: Blanca Rosa Hernandez) says his three daughters — Ananda, 26, Prabhu Atma, 24, and Kirtan, 17 — have adopted Sikhism too.
		Jai Hari, however, is averse to using the word conversion — he says it has negative connotations.
		One of Jai Hari’s two brothers is a Catholic priest in France and the other has become a follower of the Dalai Lama.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050515/spectrum/main1.htm (1585 words)

	SAJA: Jai Singh Bio
		Jai is widely considered one of the most influential technology journalists in the world.
		Presiding at the meetings, in a converted loft in the "media gulch" section of San Francisco, is Jai Singh, forty, the soft-spoken editor.
		Singh and staff, meanwhile, are preparing a set of written rules of conduct.
	www.saja.org /jaisingh.html (911 words)

	India's enchanting glass free observatories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Inspired by the 15th-century Afghani ruler Ulughbek's observatory at Samarkand, the great Indian astronomer-king Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur built these five astronomical observatories during the early 18th century.
		The Rama and Jai Prakash Yantras were designed by Jai Singh to measure precise positions of celestial bodies in the night sky.
		Jai Singh had sent several skilled people to Europe to collect astronomy texts and instruments.
	www.ufoindia.org /news_spacecomjantarmantar.htm (760 words)

	Travel to India - Visit and Explore like Indian
		Jaipur is a corroborative effort of Sawai Jai Singh's strong grounding in sciences and astrology and a Bengali architect Vidyadhar with a strong instinct for planning.
		Sawai Jai Singh built its many buildings but some of some of the structures were also built by later rulers and some of them are even dated in the in the twentieth century too.
		Constructed by Raja Man Singh I in 1592 and completed by Sawai Jai Singh I the fort is made in red sand stone and white marble.
	www.indiantraveler.com /India/Jaipur/Jaipur.html (2556 words)

	Online Rajput Community Center : Everything you want to know about Rajputs of Rajasthan
		This has as much to do with the grand vision of Sawai Jai Singh II who founded Jaipur as with the British who began the custom of calling the states by the names of their capitals.
		Jai Singh II was supremely talented - politically, intellectually and on the battlefield, he was known as the warrior-astronomer.
		In 1696 he had earned the title of 'Sawai' meaning 'One and a Quarter' (Intelligence) from emperor Aurangzeb after the emperor was impressed by his wit and pluck, a title which was proudly borne by all of Jai Singh's descendants.
	www.rajputsamaj.net /history/jaipur.htm (831 words)

	Dental Tourism Jaipur Rajasthan, Information about Jaipur Rajasthan India
		Of special mention is Jai Singh 2nd chhatri because of the carvings that have been used to embellish it.
		Jai Singh 2nd had a passion for astronomy and used astronomical inventions from different of these observatories, the largest of which in is Jaipur.
		Ironically, Ishwari Singh was ostracized for his lover of a common girl, and he is the only Kachhawaha Maharaja who has not been commemorated at Gaitor.
	www.jaipurdentalhospital.com /about_jaipur.htm (1663 words)

	Jaipur Jantar Mantar, About Jaipur Jantar Mantar, Jaipur Jantar Mantar Attractions: India Line Travel
		Built between the period of 1728-34, the Jantar Mantar is based on the astronomical studies conducted by Sawai Jai Singh and his men around the world.
		Jai Singh had to make choice regarding the material used for the construction of the observatory.
		The Jai Prakash Yantra is also meant for monitoring the work of other instruments in the observatory.
	www.indialine.com /travel/rajasthan/jaipur/jantar-mantar.html (539 words)

	The Mewar Encyclopaedia: J
		The formalities proceeded solemnly and Prince Azam concluded the treaty, granting all the terms originated by Jai Singh's ancestor, Maharana Amar Singh I. The thousands who had congregated let out a cry of joy at the prospect of finally having the oppression lifted, and at being able to return to their homes on the plains.
		To assure Jai Singh of the Mughals' integrity in this transaction, some of Dilir Khan's sons were left in charge of the Maharana, temporary hostages until the terms were carried out.
		During Maharana Jai Singh's later reign, when, eventually, there came a lull in the endless fighting between Mewar and the Mughals, jealousy developed between two of his queens.
	www.mewarindia.com /ency/jagg.html (1471 words)

	Jabberwock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jay leaves his convalescing wife in the hospital and takes the baby home for the night, reflecting on this cruel end to their many dreams for their child.
		Jay has seen a glimpse of this woman earlier in the evening, through a hospital window, and he’s intrigued.
		Jay hurries away from them, enters the near-deserted hall and drifts into a dream, where he imagines having the two youngsters at his mercy.
	jaiarjun.blogspot.com (8726 words)

	Jaipur - Everything about Website
		Jaipur, popularly known as the Pink City, was founded in 1727 AD by one of the greatest rulers of the Kachhawaha clan, the astronomer king Sawai Jai Singh.
		Across the road from the palace is the Jantar Mantar, one of the five observatories built bySawai Jai Singh.
		Built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, the Hawa Mahal is a remarkable structure which overlooks one of the main streets and also provides some excellent views of the city.
	www.jaipur.biz (341 words)

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