In how many cities did Maharaja Jai Singh II build Jantar Mantar?

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

NTPC CBT 2 2016 Previous Paper 5 (Held On: 18 Jan 2017 Shift 2)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Five.

Important Points

Five Jantar Mantar is located in New Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura, and Varanasi, all were completed between 1724 and 1735.
Jantar Mantar is a phenomenal piece of architecture in the form of a sundial.
- It is one of the world's most accurate pre-modern observatories and attests to eighteenth-century efforts to improve understanding of planetary and other cosmic movements.

Additional Information

Sawai Jai Singh II, the remarkable Monarch of Jaipur and Amber, was a mathematician, an astronomer, and a town planner par excellence.