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- noun a mansion or palace built as a residence for a Hindu
rajah , typically inIndia orBangladesh
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Examples
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But he concedes that for all its beauty, the rajbari is a liability, since lakhs have to be spent each year on its maintenance.
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In the early years of its existence, Ranjan Palace must have presented a picture of the quintessential rajbari - bustling with the life of its numerous attendants, of the subjects who came to pay revenues, of the purebreds in its stables, and of the elephants in their shelters.
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Hetampur, in the Suri Sadar subdivision of Birbhum, is famous for its rajbari, which was built in 1905.
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On arriving at the rajbari, Mahanty had chanced upon about 200 trunks filled with costumes.
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The thieves must have made good profit since the rajbari had 999 doors - one short of 1,000, in deference to Murshidabad's Hazarduari.
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As you step into the courtyard, you indeed learn quite a few things about the tastes of the original owners of the rajbari simply by staring at the rows of grand arches and columns.
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The Surul rajbari is famous for its Durga Puja, and for its 18th century temples, which have terracotta carvings depicting scenes from the Ramayan, puranas, besides sundry ladies and gentlemen dressed in Western clothes.
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Srinivas Sarkar, who built the Surul rajbari in its present form in the mid 18th century, made his fortune selling sails for ships woven in Birbhum's Ilambazar, which is still known for its weaving centres.
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The grounds of the palace are bare today except for the buildings that make up the rajbari itself.
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rajbari (top), and detail from a carving on one of the temples in Surul
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