JODHPUR CITY
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rounding plain, attracts the eye from afar. Its wall, ao to r o feet
in height and It to 71 feet thick, encloses an oblong space about
So, yards in length by a5, in breadth at the widest part. Two main
entrances, the Jai pot at the north-east corner and the Fmeh pot in the
south-west, lead up from the city, and between them are several other
gates and inner walls erected for purposes of defence. The principal
buildings m the fort are a s of apartments forming the palace, the
most noteworthy being the Moti Mahal, built by Raja Stir Singh in the
beginning of the seventeenth century, the Fmsh Mahal, built by Maha-
raja Ajit Singh about - years later to commemorate the retirement
of the Mughal army from his capital, and the room used m
monry. These buildings me decorated will, beautifully carved panels
and pierced screens of red stone. The city contains many handsome
buildings, including ten old palaces, some town residences of the
ThAkms, and eleven fine temples, the most beautiful architecturally
being the Kunj Bihari-kA -mandar, -built in the latter half of the
eighteenth century.
Jodhpur a trading centre, but its industries are important, co
listing of lacquer-work, dyeing of cotton cloths, and the manufacture of
bras and it utensils. The m m streets are paved; and a light tram.
ways of x feet gauge, laid down in x896 between the railway station
and the city, the cars being drawn by bullocks, has proved of great
ece to the public, and has considerably reduced the cost of
carriage of grei and other c modities. A numilip'l committee
(established in 1884) attends to the sanitation of the city, and settles
disputes relating m rights of easement, &c., the anneal expenditure of
about Rs. to,oeo being home solely by the Dmbar. A tramway line,
worked by buR locs, mas and the city, passing all but one of the
public latrines. Twice a day the loaded wagons are collected and
formed into train, outside the Sojmia Gate, whence they are hauled by
steam-power a distance of about 5 miles into the open country, where
the filth is trenched and the refuse burnt. This steam conservancy
tramway is the first of its kind in Rajpulana. The total length of the
line including the section worked by buffalos and an extension up to
and mundihe Maharaja's stables, now eaceeds -3 miles. It was com-
pleled between x897 and 1 899 at a cost of more than Ii lakhs, and the
working expen wage about Its. 7,000 a yea Within the city am
three hospital, ad couple of dispensaries. Of the hospitals, one is
solely for females and another is maintained by the United Free Church
of Scotland Mission. In the suburbs there are hospitals attached to
the jail and the Imperial Service cavalry regiments, and a couple of
dispensaries, one of which is close to the Residency and is kept up by
the British Government, while the other is for railway employes. The
city possesses an Arts college, a high school with lower secondary and
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