Bundi: Architectural Heritage of a Forgotten Rajput Capital

The Ministry of Tourism’s Dekho Apna Desh Webinar series titled “Bundi: Architectural Heritage of a Forgotten Rajput Capital” on 24th October 2020 focused on Bundi, Rajasthan.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

 Bundi is a district in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan. Bundi was the erstwhile capital of Hada Rajput province known as Hadoti located in south-eastern Rajasthan.

Bundi is also known as City of stepwalls, blue city and also as Chotti Kashi.

Bundi was known as Chotti Kashi owing to presence of over hundred temples within and around the hada capital.

Temples constructed in early phase of Bundi’s growth were is classical Nagara style, while in later phases new temple typologies emerged from amalgamation of architectural form of traditional haveli with the classical Nagara style.

Jain temples formed third type of temple type constructed in an introvert form.

A fourth temple type emerged in the form of raised or elevated temple. Absence of monumentality in their scale is a distinctive feature of temples in Bundi.