Tarang Arora: The story of Amrapali

Trace the fascinating history of the fine jewellery house at the Amrapali Museum of Jewellery in Jaipur

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My father Rajiv Arora and his friend Rajesh Ajmera were both history students, and they founded Amrapali in 1978. My father's family members were all in professions such as medicine and law, and my grandfather had dreams of my father being a bureaucrat, but my father always wanted to start his own business. Rajesh's father was a successful emerald dealer in Jaipur, and Rajesh also wanted to start a business of his own, so the two of them got together and started selling handmade wooden boxes with copper embossing, which they commissioned from local craftspeople.

As they travelled around India selling their products, someone in Delhi told them that the garnet stone was in abundance in Jaipur, so they decided to find out more about garnet, and that's how they first got into jewellery, and realised the significance of jewellery in history.

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