Vidyadhar Bhattacharya was a famous architect, who was called by the Royal Highness of Jaipur, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II in the year 1727. Maharaja Jai Singh II requested him for the construction of Jaipur, one of the earliest cities in India and also the first planned city of India. He was the chief architect and city planner of the pink city, Rajasthan.
Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (1693-1751) was a Bengali architect, who belonged to Naihati, which is now considered West Bengal. He was working as a Junior Auditor when he was first approached by the Maharaja of Jaipur.
Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, the chief architect of Jaipur city, used holistic principles such as Shilpa Shastra and Vastu Shastra to create the whole grid based structure of the Jaipur city. He laid out a well thought after plan by researching on the ancient Indian Literature on astronomy, the journals on Ptolemy and Euclid.
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