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Badi Chaupar (Manak Chowk)

📍 Near Crossing of the two cardinal axes, walled city, Jaipur

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Good to know

construction year

1727-34

Verified 16 Sept 2026

Story

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Historians say

Surviving City Palace Museum maps dated 1727-34 show instructions for planning the first four chowkris and their bazaars.

Historians say

The principal designed public square of Jaipur, formed where the city's two cardinal axes cross. Johari Bazaar runs south from it and Tripolia Bazaar west. It is a piece of the 1727 plan, not a later accretion.

Historians say

Badi Chaupar is also a Pink Line Jaipur Metro terminus, extended here in September 2020.

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No curated connections for this place yet — the connection graph (Technical doc §9) is seeded for a handful of flagship entities so far.

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