Mubarak Mandi is an Indian palace in Jammu. The royal residence of the maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir from the Dogra dynasty was the palace. It served as their primary residence until 1925, when Maharaja Hari Singh relocated to the Hari Niwas Palace in Jammu’s northern outskirts. The palace is in the centre of Jammu’s old walled city, overlooking the Tawi river.

The palace was designed in the early twentieth century by Hari Singh, the last maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (1895 – 1961), who moved here from the older Mubarak Mandi Palace in 1925. Before heading to Bombay, he spent the last days of his stay in Jammu and Kashmir here (now Mumbai). The structure is an art deco design. In 1990, the maharaja’s descendants turned the palace into a heritage hotel. The Amar Mahal Palace museum is located on the estate’s grounds.

-Sonali Choudhary