No free photograph
Vidyadhar Bhattacharya
Architect · Architects · Lived 1693 to 1751 · aged 58
Vidyadhar Bhattacharya was the chief architect and city planner of Jaipur, Rajputana. He was a Gaur Brahmin from Naihati, and was already working in the Amber state as Junior Auditor when approached by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II in 1727 to build one of the earliest planned cities of India.
Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Vidyadhar Bhattacharya is read about 13 times a day, in 5 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 1 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?About this person
City Palace, a newer addition to palace complex, was designed by Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob. He used principles of Shilpa Shastra and Vaastu Shastra to create a grid-based model of city.
Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
