Nyay Mandir
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| name = Nyay Mandir
| image = Chimnabai Nyaya Mandir (front gate) in Baroda in the 1890s.jpg
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| image_caption = The Nyaya Mandir in the 1890s
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| architectural_style = Indo-Saracenic architecture
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| location_city = Vadodara, Gujarat
| location_country = India
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| opened_date = 30 November 1896
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| cost = {{INR|744000}}
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| client = Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III
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The Nyay Mandir, {{lit|Temple of Justice}}, is a court building in Vadodara in the state of Gujarat, western India.
History
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| quote = "I wish to commemorate the virtues of Her Late Highness and the admiration I entertained for her-the mild, charitable, amiable woman, the devoted mother and loving wife."
| source = —Words by Sayajirao Gaekwad III as he laid the foundation stone for ‘The Maharani Chimnabai Market’ in memory of his queen.
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Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, ruler of Baroda State, opened the building on 30 November 1896 and named it after his deceased wife Chimnabai I.{{cite news |last1=Nishant |first1=Dave |date=19 June 2023 |title=મહારાણી ચિમણાબાઇની મૂર્તિ માટે 17 વર્ષથી રાજવી પરિવારનો સંઘર્ષ |trans-title=The royal family's struggle for 17 years for the statue of Maharani Chimnabai |newspaper=Divya Bhaskar |url=https://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/local/gujarat/vadodara/news/royal-family-struggle-for-17-years-for-maharani-chimanabai-idol-131422856.html |access-date=24 June 2023}} Then this vegetable market building near Sursagar Lake was named 'The Maharani Chimnabai Market'. It was later used as a town hall. The building was then converted in an imperial court named 'Maharani Chimnabai Nyay Mandir'.{{sfn|Gazetteer of the Baroda State: Volume II|p=349}}{{cite web |title=Nyay Mandir |url=https://historyofvadodara.in/nyay-mandir/ |access-date=24 June 2023 |website=History of Vadodara}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-XpKAQAAIAAJ&q=Chimnabai |title=Souvenir |date=1999 |publisher=Reception Committee, All India Library Conference, the University of California |page=16}}{{cite web |title=District Court Vadodara, Gujarat ઇતિહાસ |url=https://vadodara.dcourts.gov.in/gu/about-department/%E0%AA%9C%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B2%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B2%E0%AA%BE-%E0%AA%A8%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%AF%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%AF%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%B2%E0%AA%AF-%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B6%E0%AB%87/ |access-date=25 June 2023 |website=vadodara.dcourts.gov.in}}{{Cite web |date=2022-11-28 |title=ન્યાયમંદિર ઐતિહાસિક ઈમારતની ૩૦મીએ ૧૨૬મી વર્ષગાંઠ |url=https://www.loksattanews.co.in/news/30th-126th-anniversary-of-nyayamandir-historic-building |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=Loksatta News |language=gu}}
When Baroda State was merged with the Union of India, the last ruler Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad delivered his last public speech from the building. It used to house the District Court of Vadodara city.
It was built at the cost of {{INRconvert|7.44|l|year=1896}}.{{Cite news |date=2017-06-02 |title=Vadodara marvel gave justice for 120 years |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/city-marvel-gave-justice-for-120-years/articleshow/58952419.cms |access-date=2023-07-21 |issn=0971-8257}}
Architecture
File:Chimnabai Nyaya Mandir (south-east view) in Baroda in the 1890s.jpg
It is a piece of Indo-Saracenic architecture style. It was designed by Robert Chisholm, the state architect of Baroda. There was a large central hall measuring 115 feet by 86 feet with galleries on both sides and decorated with mosaic work.{{Cite journal |last=Gokhale |first=S.A. |date=1987 |title=Public Buildings in Princely State of Baroda, 1875-1939 : A Study in Urbanization |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44141752 |journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume=48 |pages=544–551 |issn=2249-1937}}{{Cite news |date=2015-01-17 |title=Architect who gave Vadodara its character |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/architect-who-gave-vadodara-its-character/articleshow/45918797.cms |access-date=2023-07-21 |issn=0971-8257}}{{Cite journal |last=Jain |first=Jinisha |date=2023-03-04 |title=Architectural analyses of 19th century Indo-Saracenic structures designed by British Architect Robert Chisholm in Vadodara |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13467581.2022.2064472 |journal=Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering |language=en |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=861–874 |doi=10.1080/13467581.2022.2064472 |issn=1346-7581|doi-access=free }} There is a clock on front side of the building.{{Cite news |date=2016-05-30 |title=Baroda's Big Bens to chime again |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/barodas-big-bens-to-chime-again/articleshow/52499192.cms |access-date=2023-07-21 |issn=0971-8257}}
A white marble statue of Chimnabai I is placed in the main room of the Nyay Mandir.{{sfn|Gazetteer of the Baroda State: Volume II|p=467}}
References
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- {{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the Baroda State: Volume II, Administration |date=1923 |publisher=G. H. Desai |location=Baroda |page= |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.94278/page/n481/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=22 June 2023|ref=CITEREFGazetteer of the Baroda State: Volume II}}
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