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India - Overview
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...rural villages to techno-savvy urban hubs - it’s hardly surprising that India has been dubbed the planet’s most multidimensional country. The subcontinent is...
Maharashtra - Overview
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- Maharashtra
Sprawling Maharashtra, India’s second most populous state, stretches from the gorgeous greens of the...
Kolkata (Calcutta) - Overview
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- Kolkata (Calcutta)
...not an inch of space is wasted. By its old spelling, Calcutta, India’s second-biggest city conjures up images of human suffering to most...
Uttar Pradesh - Overview
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- Uttar Pradesh
...UP, and often referred to as the cow belt or Hindu belt, India’s most populous state covers the vast, sprawling plain of northern India...
Bihar & Jharkhand - Overview
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- Bihar & Jharkhand
...forests, Jharkhand is notable as the key Jain pilgrimage site in east India, though the state’s best-kept secret is Betla National Park, where...
Goa - Overview
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- Goa
...people vow never to set foot there. However, Goa, like everywhere in India, is never quite what you expect. In places the infamous hash-fuelled...
Rameswaram - Overview
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- Asia
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- Tamil Nadu
- Southern Tamil Nadu
- Rameswaram
Rameswaram is one of the most significant pilgrimage centres in South India for both Shaivites and Vaishnavaites. It was here that Rama (an incarnation...
Northeast States - Overview
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- Northeast States
India’s 1947 partition left the northeastern states dangling like a crooked cartographic...
Delhi - Overview
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- Delhi
...metropolis. Scratch beyond the gritty surface and you’ll swiftly discover that India’s capital is sprinkled with glittering gems: captivating ancient monuments, magnificent museums...
Jammu & Kashmir - Overview
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- Jammu & Kashmir
The mountain retreat of Mughals and Buddhist lamas; the Alps of India; Jehangir’s Valley of Paradise. All these terms have been used to...
Punjab & Haryana - Overview
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- Punjab & Haryana
...clad population generally provide a break from the stresses found elsewhere in India. Punjab may share a (Sikh) prime minister with the rest of India...
Surat - Overview
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- Asia
- India
- Gujarat
- Eastern Gujarat
- Surat
...point for Mecca, and in 1613 was the first English settlement in India. Once India’s chief trading port, it declined when the East India...
Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh - Overview
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- Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh
Madhya Pradesh (MP) was India’s largest state until tribal Chhattisgarh broke away in 2000. It’s...
Calangute & Baga - Overview
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- Asia
- India
- Goa
- North Goa
- Calangute & Baga
...rampant package- and charter-tourist market in the ’90s. Today they are India’s ‘kiss me quick’ hat capital and the most popular beach resorts...
Varanasi - Overview
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- Uttar Pradesh
- Varanasi
Few places in India are as colourful, charismatic or spiritual as the bathing ghats lining the...
Elephanta Island - Overview
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- India
- Mumbai (Bombay)
- Greater Mumbai
- Elephanta Island
In the middle of Mumbai Harbour, 9km northeast of the Gateway of India, the rock-cut temples on Elephanta Island (Indian/foreigner Rs 10/250...
Saurashtra - Overview
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- Gujarat
- Saurashtra
...peninsula, is the poster child for Gujarati diversity. Never part of British India, it consisted of 200 separate princely states until Independence during which time...
Kottayam - Overview
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- Kerala
- Southern Kerala
- Kottayam
...was established here in 1820 and it was the first district in India to achieve 100% literacy. Today it’s home to the newspaper Malayala...
Hyderabad & Secunderabad - Overview
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- Andhra Pradesh
- Hyderabad & Secunderabad
...Today Hyderabad’s west side is, with Bengaluru (Bangalore), the seat of India’s mighty software dynasty; ‘Cyberabad’ generates jobs, wealth and posh lounges like...
Gwalior - Overview
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- India
- Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh
- Northern Madhya Pradesh
- Gwalior
...described by the Mughal emperor Babur as ‘the pearl amongst fortresses in India’. For travellers making a detour from the Golden Triangle, the slow-paced...
Jammu & the Kashmir Valley - Overview
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- Jammu & Kashmir
- Jammu & the Kashmir Valley
...the Pir Panjal mountains and the western Himalaya, the Kashmir Valley straddles India and Central Asia. In both culture and appearance, this Muslim heartland is...
Mumbai (Bombay) - Overview
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- Mumbai (Bombay)
...Hinduism; a dash of Islam; fold in your mixture with equal parts India; throw it all in a blender on high (adding generous helpings of...
Puducherry (Pondicherry) - Overview
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- Tamil Nadu
- Northern Tamil Nadu
- Puducherry (Pondicherry)
...changed from Pondicherry in October 2006 – is unlike anywhere else in South India. That’s hardly surprising – the former French colony was settled in the...
Tamil Nadu - Overview
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- Tamil Nadu
...appeal, then Tamil Nadu – land of the Tamils and heartland of southern India – is the place to be. Long coastlines and forested mountains form stunning...
