Sawai Jai Singh restructured Amber into divisions or nizamats to create a modern state with a feudal hierarchy, parallel to that of the Mughals. The founding of a new capital city, Jaipur was the most visible sign of this reordering of the state.
In the realm of religion, he was a devotee of the god Rama in his youth, but in adulthood he became a patron of the worship of Krishna which had a direct relationship with his management of his state through Shri Govind.
The Vajapeya Yajna ( 1708 ) exclusively meant for a universal ruler and twice commissioning of the Ashvamedha Yajna later in his reign privilege of a paramount king only and setting himself up personally as an arbiter of religious disputes which was not normally a function of even the greatest of kings, Sawai Jai Singh not only projected himself as surpassing other rulers but commercial aspect of his ambition was integral to the establishment of a new capital as a leading trading city.
With a favorable Geography he sent personal invitations to noted merchants of the time, offering them tax concessions and gifts of land on which to build houses, if they agreed to settle in Jaipur . Jains were specially invited.
A haveli was built for each thakur within the city and the cost was recovered through the remission to the state of 10 % of their incomes , thus obliging them to establish their own headquarters within the capital. By distributing the chiefs around the city, Sawai Jai Singh ensured that a wealthy dignitary had a personal interest in the maintenance of services in each of its districts. By obliging the thakurs to attend in the capital, he also kept them by his side, thus limiting the extent to which they could build autonomous power within their thikanas ( domains )-and their presence in Jaipur created a market for the luxury goods in which the merchants traded.
In the realm of religion, he was a devotee of the god Rama in his youth, but in adulthood he became a patron of the worship of Krishna which had a direct relationship with his management of his state through Shri Govind.
The Vajapeya Yajna ( 1708 ) exclusively meant for a universal ruler and twice commissioning of the Ashvamedha Yajna later in his reign privilege of a paramount king only and setting himself up personally as an arbiter of religious disputes which was not normally a function of even the greatest of kings, Sawai Jai Singh not only projected himself as surpassing other rulers but commercial aspect of his ambition was integral to the establishment of a new capital as a leading trading city.
With a favorable Geography he sent personal invitations to noted merchants of the time, offering them tax concessions and gifts of land on which to build houses, if they agreed to settle in Jaipur . Jains were specially invited.
A haveli was built for each thakur within the city and the cost was recovered through the remission to the state of 10 % of their incomes , thus obliging them to establish their own headquarters within the capital. By distributing the chiefs around the city, Sawai Jai Singh ensured that a wealthy dignitary had a personal interest in the maintenance of services in each of its districts. By obliging the thakurs to attend in the capital, he also kept them by his side, thus limiting the extent to which they could build autonomous power within their thikanas ( domains )-and their presence in Jaipur created a market for the luxury goods in which the merchants traded.
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