Deluxe Double Room

The jharokha is the room. It is a stone window bay cut into the thickness of the wall, deep enough to sit in properly with a cushion and a book, and it is pointed at the Aravallis — which means that between about 4 and 6 in the afternoon this is the best seat you have paid for all trip.

Behind it: 500 square feet of marble floor, a carved four-poster with a block-printed cover, Venetian mirrors on the walls, and a scatter of antique furniture the family bought over years rather than a decorator sourced in a week. The bathroom is cream marble with twin basins on black stone and a jaali screen set high over the shower, so from about 3 o'clock the opposite wall fills with small geometric pieces of sun. There is a balcony. There is also a ceiling fan, which in this climate and this stone is not a period detail — it is the thing that means you can leave the air conditioning off.