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English: Close up of Jaipur column at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The Jaipur Column is a monumental column in the middle of the courtyard in front of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential residence in New Delhi, Delhi, India. In 1912 Madho Singh II, the Maharaja of Jaipur, offered to sponsor its construction to commemorate the 1911 Delhi Durbar and the transfer of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi. The first stones were led by The king Emperor George The Fifth and his consort Queen Mary on the 15 December 1911