Hotel Narain
Niwas Palace
Narain Niwas was built in the 1928 by General Amar Singh, Thakur of
Kanota, Commander of the Jaipur State Forces and confident of the
then Maharaja, Sawai Man Singh. General Amar Singh was the grandson
of Thakur Zorawar Singh, founder of the Kanota family. Thakur Shivnath
Singh, (General Amar Singhji’s brother) supervised the actual
construction. The new mansion was named after their father, Thakur
Narain Singh, who had been Chief of police in Jaipur State as well
as a minister at the neighbouring princely state of Alwar.
Narain Niwas was a country residence to which Amar Singh could withdraw
when he wanted a change from his busy administrative and court life,
and from the cares of ‘the Kanota family’s Haveli (the Narain
Niwas) within the walled city. Like other noblemen of old Jaipur State,
he built his "garden house" in the vicinity of Rambagh,
the pleasure garden and palace whose construction was begun in the
19th century by Maharaja Ram Singh (1835- 1880). Until World War II,
Narain Niwas surrounded by jungle where Amar Singh could go for pig
sticking (hunting wild boar), to shoot game birds, and to hunt black
buck and the occasional panther.
Amar Singh ’s reputation as a soldier, administrator and a sports
man is exceeded by his reputation as a diarist. His diary, kept in
English for 44 years, from 1898 to 1942, in 89 folio volumes, 800
pages per volume, provides and unparalleled ethnographic account of
Rajput life in princely India in the late Victorian and Edwardian
eras.
Visitors can now enjoy traditional Rajput hospitality at Narain Niwas
Palace Hotel Jaipur. This property is being run as a Heritage Hotel
by the Kanota Family.
Access
Jaipur Airport: 11 km
Jaipur Railway Station :05 km
Jaipur Bus Stand : 04 km
Restaurant & Bar
Restaurant: Restaurant of Narain Niwas Palace serves Indian,
Continental, and Chinese Cuisine.
Bar: Available.
Room Facilities
AC Rooms with Telephone and Attached Bath Running Hot & Cold Running
Water
Hotel Facilities & Services
Swimming Pool, Billiards Table, Table Tennis, Ayurvedic Massage, Doctor
on Call, Laundry, Money Changer, Safe Deposit, Travel Desk Service,
Car-Parking. |
