The nineteenth-century public park movement reached India in 1868 when the Maharaja of Jaipur decided to lay out the public garden known as Ram Niwas. He employed an amateur English designer, Frederick de Fabeck, to lay it out and an English architect, Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, to design its focal building. The result was a fusion of Indian and European architectural and garden styles that influenced the public gardens laid out subsequently in many parts of India.
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