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You are nearly in the middle of the city. This is one of the principal business streets, and, as you see, it is beautifully wide and airy - Jeypore is in this respect entirely different from most of the large cities of India, but it is a comparatively modern place (1728).

That curiously beautiful building over across the street with its bewilderingly complex design of different-sized windows and piled-up domes and pinnacles, is covered with stucco, delicately tinted with rose-color and creamy white. It is part of a place of His Highness the Maharajah of Jeypore; the palace precincts occupy a seventh part of the whole area of the city, for the park and gardens contain a large number of buildings of various kinds - an Art Museum, an observatory, the royal stables, etc. The Maharaja himself is one of the most broadly educated Hindus in India. He is the lineal descendant of one of the most celebrated heroes of ancient Hindustan, and, of course, belongs to an exceedingly high caste. but a few years ago he deliberately transgressed the rules of caste by leaving his native land here and making a voyage to England. Naturally he guarded against every unnecessary infringement of the rules of his religion, and so carried with him every sort of food and drink and utensil needed during the visit; he did see a great deal of western life and gained larger insight into the ideas of the western world. He is exceedingly public spirited, supporting an admirable school of art and industry with one of the best museums in all the East, a large college and even a school for women. 

Bullocks are used for much of the teaming here and two-wheeled bullock-carts serve as carriages. If a lady is riding, the curtains are decorously let down around the sides to screen her from public gaze.

(See lady Dufferin's "Our Viceregal Life in India," Sir Edwin Arnold's "India Revisited," E. R. Scidmore's "Winter India," etc.)

From Notes of Travel, No. 9, copyright, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood.

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Vindpalatset i Jeypore, Indien.
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