ABSTRACT
A er about een minutes’ climb one gets one’s rst view of what Kipling has called “the Queen of the Pass.” In a lovely gorge of the Kali Koh hills lies, or rather nestles, Amber, the old capital of the Kachwaha Rajputs. Local authorities state that it is named a er Ambarisha, the son of Mandhata, the King of Ajodhya. For six centuries it was the home of the Kachwahas, but in course of time, owing to its cramped situation at the base of the hills, it proved unsuitable as the capital of such a large and in uential state as Jaipur had become, so Sawai Jai Singh built the present city six miles o .
