These include the Jodhpur royal family and Umaid Bhavan's owner, Raja Gajsingh II and his family,
and personalities from the business world along with Tata, Birla, Mittal, and Godrej.
Due to the famine,
the local people urged the then King Umaid Singh to provide employment after which the king decided
to build a grand palace for which he called and assigned the famous architect Henry von Lanchester to plan it.
Interestingly, this palace was not just built as the lavish residence for the Jodhpur royal family;
the then Maharaja of Jodhpur Umaid Singh benevolently accredited an all new royal
palace to replace the Mehrangarh Fort as a new symbol of a new Jodhpur in 1923.