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The outer structure of the Gujari Mahal has survived in an almost total state of preservation, the interior has been now converted into an archaeological museum. Within Gwalior Fort, also built by Man Singh Tomar, is the Man Mandir Palace, [18] built between 1486 CE and 1517 CE. The tiles that once adorned its exterior have not survived, but at ...
The Gujari Mahal Archeological Museum or State Archaeological Museum, sometimes called the "Gwalior Fort Museum", is a state museum in Gwalior, located in the fortress of Gujari Mahal. [1] It displays numerous artifacts of the region, including a fragment of the Garuda capital of the Heliodorus pillar from Vidisha .
The Gujari Mahal now a museum, was built by Raja Man Singh Tomar for his wife Mrignayani, a Gujar princess. She demanded a separate palace for herself with a regular water supply through an aqueduct from the nearby Rai River.
Grateful and captivated by her beauty, Firoz Shah Tughlaq proposed marriage to her. The Gujjar girl accepted his proposal but declined to accompany him to Delhi. Determined to be with his beloved, Firoz Shah Tughlaq shifted his royal seat to Hisar in Haryana and built the majestic Gujari Mahal in her honor and built his own palace complex ...
The 15th century Gujari Mahal is a monument to the love of Raja Mansingh Tomar for his Gujar Queen, Mrignayani. The outer structure of Gujari Mahal has survived in an almost total state of preservation; the interior has been converted into an archaeological museum housing rare antiquities, some of them dating back to the 1st century A.D.
The Gujari Mahal situated in Hisar, Haryana (built in 1354) still hums the immortal love story of Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq and his lover a native lady of the Gurjar tribe. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] According to the story, when one day Emperor Firoz Shah Tughlaq went out for hunting he felt thirsty in the dense forest, but there was a great shortage ...
He gave Rs. 1.5 million for the reconstruction of Gwalior fort's boundary wall and the broken parts of Man Mandir, Gujari Mahal, and Johar Kund. In 1886 Gwalior fort and Morar cantonment, with some other villages, which had been held by British troops since 1858, were exchanged for Jhansi city.
According to the 2011 census Gwalior district has a population of 2,032,036, [5] roughly equal to the nation of Slovenia [6] or the US state of New Mexico. [7] This gives it a ranking of 227th in India (out of a total of 640). [5] The district has a population density of 445 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,150/sq mi) . [5]