@article{bb580630e02a47e7bd0131e83fe57cde,
title = "Gaze and the picturesque landscape of Amber, India",
author = "Amita Sinha and Neha Rajora",
note = "Funding Information: The packaging of princely Rajasthan for tourists was supported by media and travel facilities provided by the Government of India. Palaces as the location of films and art exhibits displaying royal objects created a fantasy world where Rajput princes lived and abided by an outmoded code of honor and chivalry.14 This branding, aided in no small part by the decision of Rajput royalty to convert their palaces into hotels, captured novel meanings of the picturesque in brochures and images. Amber is no longer viewed melancholically as an abandoned and desolate fort but as a magnificent palace complex on a hill top ascended to as on a caparisoned elephant. The amble into history is conjured by an exclusive visit to the preserved monument from where photographs are taken, but the town and the peripheral heritage sites are seldom ventured into. Picturesque is exotic, colorful, royal, and pleasing to the eye, an exclusively visual aesthetic experience of a fantasy world.15",
year = "2014",
month = oct,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1080/14601176.2013.874305",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "309--322",
journal = "Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes",
issn = "1460-1176",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "4",
}