The Monsoon Palace, also called Sajjan Garh Palace, stands on the Bansdara peak of the Aravalli Hills, about five kilometers west of Udaipur in Rajasthan, India. It looks over Lake Pichola. Construction began in 1884 under Maharana Sajjan Singh, who planned it as an astronomical center for tracking monsoon clouds.
Sajjan Singh died in December of that year, and his successor Maharana Fateh Singh completed the palace. It is built of white marble, with high turrets, a central court, domes, fountains and jharokas.
An underground cistern held 195,500 liters, but the water supply proved inadequate, and the palace was abandoned. It appeared as Kamal Khan's residence in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.
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