| Bagore ki Haveli | |
|---|---|
 Museum at Bagore ki Haveli | |
| Coordinates | 24°34′47″N73°40′48″E / 24.5796687°N 73.6800357°E /24.5796687; 73.6800357 |
| Built | ~ 1751 to 1778 CE |
| Built for | Amarchand Badwa |
| Original use | haveli |
  Haveli in Udaipur Show map of Rajasthan Bagore Ki Haveli (India) Show map of India | |
Bagore-ki-Haveli is ahaveli inUdaipur inRajasthan state inIndia. It is right on the waterfront ofLake Pichola atGangori Ghat. Amar Chand Badwa, a Prime Minister ofMewar, built it in the eighteenth century.
The palace has over a hundred rooms, with displays of costumes and modern art. The glass and mirror in the interiors are Haveli work. It also preserves an example ofMewar painting on the walls of the Queen's Chamber. The two peacocks made from small pieces of colored glasses are examples of glasswork.[citation needed]
Shri Amarchand Badwa, aSanadhya Brahmin who was the Prime Minister of Mewar from 1751 to 1778, throughout the reigns of Maharanas Pratap Singh II, Raj Singh II, Ari Singh, and Hamir Singh respectively, built this haveli. Following the death of Amarchand, the edifice came under the domain of the Mewari royal family and Bagore-ki-Haveli was occupied by Nath Singh, a relative of the then maharana. In 1878, the natural father of Sajjan Singh, Maharaj Shakti Singh of Bagore extended the haveli and built the triple-arched gateway, and the property remained in the possession of Mewar State until 1947. After Independence, the Government of Rajasthan used the buildings for housing Government employees, but, as with other nationalised properties, where there was nobody with a vested interest in the standards of maintenance, damage and neglect went unchecked, and for almost forty years, the haveli's condition deteriorated to a deplorable extent. The Government was eventually persuaded to relinquish their hold on the haveli and in 1986; it was handed over to the West Zone Cultural Centre.
The West Zone Cultural Centre planned to renovate the haveli into a museum. Originally, the idea was to represent the culture of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Rajasthan, the West Zone States, in the proposed museum. However, seeing that the Haveli was an architectural museum by itself, owing to typical and charming architectural style, it was decided that it would be preserved as a museum of Mewar's aristocratic culture.
To provide the same royal look, experts and members of the royal family were consulted. The Haveli was restored primarily using local and traditional skills and materials includinglakhori bricks andlime mortar. Several murals done inaraish in the 18th and 19th century were uncovered, and many doors, windows and perforated screens were repaired or replaced.
There are 138 rooms, as well as numerous corridors & balconies, courtyards and terraces. The interiors of the Haveli are embellished with intricate and fine mirror work.
The Chambers of the Royal Ladies still bear fine frescoes of the Mewari style and there are glorious coloured-glass windows in some of the rooms as well as two peacocks made with coloured glass mosaics that display the superb skills of the finest craftsmanship.
Unique symbols of theRajput clan, such as jewellery boxes, dice-games, hukkas, pan boxes, nut crackers, hand fans, rose water sprinklers, copper vessels and other items are also on display here.
