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A sign described another instrument nearby as the “Stereographic projection of heaven on plane of equator. For observing altitudes and thence finding time and all the positiens (sic) of the heavenly bodies”.
Another sight in Jaipur which was popular with domestic tourists was Jantar Mantar (Calculation Instrument), an astrological and astronomical observatory built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II in 1728.
That Maharaja was “committed to the ambitious task of understanding the universe.” He “dispatched scholars to the intellectual centers of Europe,” Britain, Portugal, and Greece, as well as to “Arabia” to bring back “the latest treatises on the configuration of the planets” (Majestic Jaipur, p 18).
The father showed us his sprawling house of several rooms full of furniture worthy of a respected burgher. His wife’s traditional status was affirmed in the pictures of their wedding on the walls: she was sitting on a chair and he stood regally behind her. Two elegant rifles also on the wall connected us to Jaipur’s Rajput past. A mounted stuffed head of a tiger in between them, however, signified that they were used more in hunting.
“Shopping malls are new,” our tour guide said, “only from the last five years; and only in some places.” I saw examples in Delhi and Agra.
At its entrance, right on the street, a woman ran a laundry business, washing the clothes before your eyes.
Our guide Mr. Singh was not pleased to see two women who were in veil . This odhni (veil) “is not compelled by our religion, whereas Islam compels it.” As he explained it, “Hindu women began to put on the veil to protect themselves against the lust of Muslim invaders.”
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