Circuit House

So while I thoroughly enjoyed the AnShness/Shekhars yesterday, I have a slight grouse/confusion. Sorry to be a party pooper! Also, just to clarify, I love Shiv as much as any other red-blooded straight femal, so am certainly not bashing him!

I always had the impression that Shiv's living quarters (as in the whole of Circuit House) would be sparse, simple and small. I figured that as a collector, he would be provided with accommodation, but that that accommodation wouldn't be big or fancy (these are all assumptions I made, so please correct me if I'm wrong). I was confused, then, to see the huuuge garden in yesterday's episode. When Dadda Ji took Anandi out to show her the poda that time and Shiv cut himself, the angle the scene was shot at made it look to me like the garden they were in was in a public place. But in yesterday's episode, the garden rivalled that of some mehel... it was massive and quite obviously private. And the living quarters also seem like they are solely for Shiv (and big enough to fit both him and his family of 4 quite comfortably! Speaking of which, why are they still around... while I like them, don't they need to be getting back to Udaipur? But I digress...). I was somehow under the impression that there would be a compound for Shiv and all other government officials who work in Jaitsar but don't have homes there, and that Shiv would have the best quarters in the compound due to his post, but certainly nowhere near this level. It just doesn't seem to fit that the same man who's insistent on a simple wedding due to his and his fiance's positions in the village has such spuriously expansive living space...

So basically, I want to ask... is this opinion just me being a nitpicker? Do other people think that having more living space than one needs, even if it's simply done-up space, is unnecessary? Do real collectors actually live like this? Were my assumptions totally wrong? Koi please in sab sawaalon ki jawab dijiye :)

The DM's quarter in my home town was palatial with huge garden.

mostly goverment service mein jo administrative area se jude hain unhe goverment house milta hai and government house aisi hi hote hain .jub tuk admin service se jude govt officer service se se jude hote hain tub tuk jahan jahan unka transfer hota hai tub tuk unko goverment house milta hai .to ias ips log aise rehte hain jub tuk woh retire nahi ho jate

Ah, that makes sense, nniks. Didn't know about the palatial houses being left over from the colonial era and used by high-up government officials. It's definitely possible that CH is one of those! I just had a different view of how collectors lived, given that they're discouraged from accepting gifts and all that... so I thought I'd ask.

Thanks for the clarification, surabhi.

I think it just surprised me ke government houses aisa ho sakta hai... I was convinced the CVs had to havr blundered as I didn't think it was possible xD

in my real life mein my maternal grand parent was DG jub tuk woh service mein rahe tub tuk unko aisi hi goverment house milte rahe .i myself live there some time

Circuit houses are really beautiful to look at both inside and outside.They are quite spacious.

hmm u hav a valid point.. also there was no collector before in jaitsar this is the first collector. so mayb the gvernment has hired ir rented someones unoccupied haveli or bungalow for the collector. my point js dadadji came just now so how come his rose bushes have grown so quickly? ya phir woh apne saare paudhe udaipur se uthakar yaha laaye hai ??😆

My uncle was an SSP and he got really spacious house with huge garden and i know some other government officials and they all received house like circuit houses so it is very common to have houses like that.