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Courtyard of painted merchants' house, Nawalgarh, India
The Shekhawati region north of Jaipur is famous for its painted villas or havelis, many of them now dilapidated, built between the 1770s and 1930s by merchants who grew rich on trade through the Thar desert
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Location: Nawalgarh Shekhawati Shekawati Rajasthan India
Photo credit: © David Crossland / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: architecture, artistic, courtyard, craftsmanship, fresco, frescoes, india, mansion, mural, nawalgarh, rajasthan, scenic, shekhawati, villa