Lallgarh Palace I Photo

Photographer’s Note

At the start of the 20th century, Maharaja Ganga Singh decided to move from the Junagarh Fort into a building more reflective of his ideas as to how his kingdom should be governed. Construction of the Lallgarh Palace took 24 years from 1902 to 1926. It was designed in the Indo-Saracenic style by Sir Swinton Jacob, and constructed of purple-pink sandstone. This is the impressive entrance gate which frames a statue of the maharaja's father - Lall Singh (after whom the palace is named) and feeds on to a circular drive, eventually leading to a porte-cochère.

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