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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox building
|name = Talatal Ghar<br>তলাতল ঘৰ
|image = Talatal Ghar.jpg
|caption = Talatal Ghar or "The Rangpur Palace", Sivasagar<br />(View of one of the wings of the Talatal Ghar)
|map_type =
|coordinates = {{coord|26.9663056|94.6246917|region:IN-AS|display=inline,title}}
|location = [[Sivasagar]]<br />[[Assam]]<br />[[India]]
|architect = Ghanashyam
|client = [[Swargadeo|ChaoPha]] [[Suremphaa]] aka [[Swargadeo]] [[Rajeswar Singha]]
|engineer =
|construction_start_date = 1751
|completion_date = 1769
|date_demolished =
|cost =
|structural_system = Bricks and indigenous varieties of cement
|style = [[Ahom Kingdom|Tai Ahom]] [[Architecture]]
|size =
}}
{{Assam History}}
The '''Talatal Ghar''' ({{lang-as|তলাতল ঘৰ}} {{IPA-as|tɔlatɔl ɡʱɔɹ|}}) is located in [[Rangpur (Ahom capital)|Rangpur]], 4 km from present-day [[Sivasagar]], [[Assam]]. It is one of the grandest examples of Tai Ahom architecture. The Talatal Ghar is also the largest of all [[Ahom kingdom|Tai Ahom]] monuments.

Visitors nowadays are only allowed to scout through the ground floor, the first floor, and what remains of the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Talatal Ghar. The floors of the Talatal Ghar below the ground have been sealed off, as visitors tended to get lost within its mazy structure and were never heard of thereafter.

==History==
[[Swargadeo]] [[Sukhrungphaa|Rudra Singha]] shifted the capital of the [[Ahom Kingdom]] from
[[Garhgaon]] to
[[Rangpur (Ahom capital)|Rangpur]] in AD 1702-03. For about a century thereafter, [[Rangpur (Ahom capital)|Rangpur]] remained the capital. It is located in the western part of [[Sivasagar]]. The earliest constructions were commissioned by [[Swargadeo]] [[Rudra Singha]] in AD 1698.<ref>{{Harvcol|Nath|2005|pp=71–72}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://onlinesivasagar.com/tourism/talatal-ghar.html |title=Talatal Ghar - Kareng Ghar, Sivasagar, Rangpur, Ahom royal palace, Sibsagar, Assam, India |publisher=Onlinesivasagar.com |access-date=2013-05-30}}</ref> Rangpur was the capital of the Ahom Kingdom and served as its military-station.

==Architecture==
;Talatal Ghar(তলাতল ঘৰ)

The Talatal Ghar is a place which was initially built as an army base. It houses two secret tunnels, and three floors below ground level which were used as exit routes during the Ahom wars (and which give the structure its name).
The Rangpur Palace is a seven-storied structure (1751-1769 CE).<ref>{{Harvcol|Nath|2005|pp=72}}</ref>

* স্বৰ্গদেউ ৰাজেশ্বৰ সিংহ([[Swargadeo]] [[Rajeswar Singha]]) added the three floors below ground, which make up the Talatal Ghar. This is made of brick and an indigenous type of cement (a mixture of Bora Chaul - a sticky variety of rice grain - eggs of swan, etc.). The Talatal Ghar had two secret tunnels. One, about 3 kilometres in length, connected the Talatal Ghar to the [[Dikhow River]], while the other, 16 kilometres long, led to the [[Garhgaon]] Palace, and was used as an escape route in case of an enemy attack.<ref>{{Harvcol|Nath|2005|pp=72}}</ref>
* From east to west, several rooms run along a long corridor; and from north to south are numerous smaller wings. The ground floor served as stables, store rooms, and servants' quarters. The Kareng Ghar was built mainly of wood, which was largely destroyed over time. The Royal apartments were on the upper storey, of which only a few rooms now remain, close to an octagonal room on the northern wing which once served as the Puja Ghar (prayer house). There are stairs leading up to the terrace. An isolated room stands on the south which is believed to have been used by the queen during her confinement.<ref>{{Harvcol|Gogoi|1999-2000|pp=27}}</ref><ref>{{Harvcol|Archaeological Survey Report|1902-3}}</ref>

However the first Ground Penetrating Survey (GPR) in the northeast, undertaken at two Ahom monuments in Sivasagar district in early Apr 2015, has not revealed the existence of any secret tunnel. The survey was carried out by IIT-Kanpur, in collaboration with the Guwahati circle of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), over a period of five days at Talatal Ghar and Ahom Royal Palace (Kareng Ghar), both in Sivasagar district.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Ahom-monuments-have-no-hidden-tunnels-Survey/articleshow/46995148.cms|title = Ahom monuments have no hidden tunnels: Survey | Guwahati News - Times of India}}</ref>

Visitors nowadays can only view the ground floor, the first floor, and what remains of the 2nd and 3rd floors .The floors of the Talatal Ghar below ground have been sealed off, and most of the wooden parts of the palace have disappeared over time.

The Rangpur Palace was once surrounded by a brick fortification and an earthen fort (Garh) with [[Levee|dikes]] filled with water. There is a [[Gola Ghar]] (gunpowder and ammunition store) near the palace.

==Photo gallery==
<gallery>
File:Talatal Ghar Cannons guarding the palace.jpg|View of the Talatal Ghar
File:Talatal Ghar view from the top floor.jpg|View from the top floor of the Talatal Ghar
File:Staircase in the Talatal Ghar Palace.jpg|View of a staircase inside the Talatal Ghar palace
File:Talatol ghar terrace.jpg|Terrace of the Talatal Ghar
File:TALATAL GHAR2.jpg|Talatal ghar corridor
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Rang Ghar| Rang Ghar, Sivasagar]]
* [[Sivasagar]]
* [[Charaideo]]

==Notes and references==
{{Reflist|group=notes}}

; Citations
{{Reflist}}

;Bibliography
* {{Citation| last=Nath | given=Hemanta Kumar | title=Arowan | publisher=Rangpur Utsav Celebration Committee, Sivasagar | year=2005}}
*{{Citation| last=Gogoi | given=Prem | title= Boranjiya Parasa Rangpur | publisher= Rangpur Tinisah Basar Otjapan Samiti, Sivasagar | year=1999–2000}}
* {{Citation| last= Archaeological Survey Report| title= Archaeological Survey Report| publisher= Government of India, Bengal Circle| date=March 1902}}

{{Forts in India}}

[[Category:Capitals of Ahom kingdom]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Assam]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Assam]]
[[Category:Forts in Assam]]
[[Category:Royal residences in India]]
[[Category:Palaces in Assam]]
[[Category:Sivasagar district]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1769]]
[[Category:Ahom kingdom]]

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