 Agra
- Known for its many splendid Mughal-era buildings, most notably
the Taj Mahal.
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 Ahmedabad
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It is the capital of Gujarat
State and an ancient walled city.
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 Ajanta
Caves
- Paintings of Ajanta Caves inspired all Asian Art just like the
Renaissance paintings influenced the western art.
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 Aurangabad
- The city is the gateway to the caves of Ellora and Ajanta.
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 Ajmer
- The city is the gateway to the caves of Ellora and Ajanta.
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 Amritsar
– The City of the ‘Golden Temple’ is the most holy city
for the followers of Sikh religion
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 Bangalore
- The metropolis is India’s equivalent of silicon valley, is a
beautiful garden city.
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 Belur
in Hassan district of Karnataka State has beautifully
carved Hindu temples.
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 city_bharatpur–The small former kingdom is famous for its Keoladeo
Ghana Bird Sanctuary with 300 species of birds.
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Bhopal
- It is a historical city around the lake with same name
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Bhubaneshwar – The capital of Orissa State is famous for its
ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples
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Bhuj
– The largest city in Kutch District, founded in early 16th
century, was a sovereign princely state during the British
colonial period. Its most famous for its tribal textiles and
arts.
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Bijapur – This is an ancient town from 10th
century CE. Its most famous for the Gol Gumbaj tomb of the 7th
Adil Shahi Dynasty ruler, Mohammed Adil Shah.
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Bidar
– This small town was part of the territory of the Nizam of
Hyderabad and is famous for its intricate silver arts.
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 Bandhavgarh
National Park
- Located in central India it is an important tiger sanctuary.
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Chandigarh – The city
famous for the buildings designed by Le Corbusier and the Rock
Garden of Nek Chand.
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Chennai - The metropolis
in Tamil Nadu was founded as a trading factory post by British
East India Company and is now the capital of the state
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Chidambaram – The city
in Tamil Nadu famous for its ‘Nataraj’ form Shiva temple.
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Darjeeling - The city
was the favorite Himalayan resort for the officers of British
East India Company in Kolkata.
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Deogarh – The tiny town
is famous for its beautiful Haveli of an Umrao of Udaipur
Maharana.
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 Ellora
Caves
- The site was chosen for the
Cave Temples of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religion dating from
550 to 1000 CE.
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 Fatehpur
Sikri
- This town was the
magnificent capital of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar
from 1571 to 1585 CE.
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Goa – The territory was
the largest Portuguese Enclave in India from 15th
century to 1961
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Gwalior – The city is
famous for its ancient fort and its Maharaja’s palaces.
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Hassan, Belur, Halebid -
Hoysala Dynasty rulers built their finely sculpted Hindu temples
in this area
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Hampi
was the magnificent capital of the mighty Vijayanagar Dynasty
that ruled the entire Deccan and South India including.
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Hyderabad - The capital
of Nizam, the Muslim ruler who declared himself independent
after Emperor Aurangzeb’s death.
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Indore – The most
populated city and major commercial center of Madhya Pradesh
State was ruled by the Maratha Holkar Dynasty in Mughal and
British colonial times.
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 Jaipur
- Amber was the capital of Kacchwaha Rajput rulers until
eighteenth century when Sawai Jai Singh built Jaipur, the pink
city.
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 Jaisalmer
-
An important trading post on the Silk Routes. Its traders built
beautiful carved mansions.
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 Jodhpur
- The capital of Rathore Dynasty of Marwar region if Rajasthan.
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 Kalimpong
- A resort city in eastern
Himalayas developed by the British. It is also near the Nathu La
Pass on the India-China border.
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Kanchipuram - The city
famous for its temples and silk saries.
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Kanha – It is one of the
most important tiger sanctuaries in central India.
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 Khajuraho
- The place is world renowned
for its Hindu and Jain temples from ninth and tenth centuries.
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Kochi - An ancient
seaport that traders from middle-east and far-east Asia
frequented long before Vasco da Gama landed in sixteenth
century.
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Kolkata – The city was
developed in late seventeenth century as British East India
Company’s Presidency of Calcutta.
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Kota – A descendent of
the neighboring Bundi former princely state established himself
here in 1624.
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Ladakh - the little
Tibet, is the western end of the world’s highest plateau of
Tibet in India.
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Lucknow – It was the
capital of the Nawabs of Awadh. Now it is the capital of the
state of Uttar Pradesh
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Lumbini - Just inside
the Nepalese territory on border of Uttar Pradesh was the site
of the birth of Siddhartha Gautam Buddha in 566 BCE.
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Madurai – The city was
already in 550 CE a flourishing city noted for its Tamil arts
and culture.
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Mahabalipuram – The coastal area famous for it rock-cut
Hindu temples was built in 630 CE.
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 Mandu
– The deserted city has Palaces with remarkable
architecture, is famous for love of Baj Bahadur with Rani
Rupmati.
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 Madhubani
-
is a town and
municipality in Mahdubani district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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 Mount
Abu
- The scenic hill resort is famous for its Jain temples that
were built between eleventh and thirteenth century CE.
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Mumbai
-
The metropolis was in territory of Mauryan Empire in third
century BCE but it developed into a commercial Petropolis under
the British Raj.
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 Mysore
- The city became famous in late nineteenth and early twentieth
century when Tipu Sultan resisted the advance of the British.
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New Delhi
- The capital of ancient kingdoms is now the capital of India.
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Patna
- The city is one of the oldest cities in India. Its past dates
back to 490 BCE.
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Pondicherry – This was a French enclave on the south-eastern
coast of the Bay of Bengal until 1954.
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Pushkar
- The tiny pilgrimage center is renowned for its Brahma temple
although it has some 500 temples but its modern fame comes from
its annual Camel Fair.
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Rajgir
–The city was a flourishing Magadhan capital long before
fifth century BCE.
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Ranakpur -
The area has one of the most
beautiful Jain temples in India that was built in early
fifteenth century.
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Ranthambhore - The region had a mighty fort long before the
tiger sanctuary was established in its surroundings.
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 Sanchi
– The site of one of the most beautiful Buddhist Stupas. The
oldest one was built in third century BCE.
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Sarnath
- The suburb of Varanasi is the place where Lord Buddha returned
to a deer park to preach the “Four Noble Truths” setting
“Dharmachakra” in motion.
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 Shimla
– The city has reminders all over the British colonial
period when it was the summer capital of India.
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Sikkim -
The state in India on the border of Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan was
an ancient kingdom established in mid-seventeenth century.
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 Shantiniketan
-
is a small town near Bolpur (the nearest railway station) in the
Birbhum
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Srirangapatnam - The place is the well known former capital
of Haider Ali and his famous son, Tipu Sultan.
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Thanjavur - The town is the ancient center of Tamil culture
in South India.
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Thekkadi – The picturesque place is the gateway to the
Periyar National Park in Kerala State
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 Thiruvananthapuram – This modern city in Kerala is the site
of one the most ancient Hindu temples.
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Trichy
– The city is one of the important temple towns of Tamil Nadu
that the Nayak rulers developed.
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 Udaipur
- The city of lakes, palaces and temples was the capital of
Sisodia Dynasty rulers after the fall of Chittorgarh.
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 Ujjain
– The ancient city is famous for its Mahakaleshwar Shiva Temple
and one of astronomical observatories of Maharaja Sawai Jai
Singh of Jaipur and Amber.
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 Vaishali – This was the city that Buddha chose to announce
his approaching Mahaparinirvana. It is north of Patna in Bihar. |
 Varanasi -
This is definitely one of the world’s oldest continuously
inhabited centers of civilization. |
