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Rajasthan
Bhangarh is less a fort than a whole town that emptied, and the Archaeological Survey of India protects it as exactly that: an "ancient site" of fort walls…
Haryana
St James' Church was founded in Karnal in 1806 and is no longer a church.
Telangana
There is one thing to see here and it is worth the detour: a monolithic Ganesha, 7.62 metres tall and 9.144 metres counting the pedestal, at Avancha in…
Probably 6th century, probably Vakataka, and left alone on a forested plateau some 60 km east of Warangal until the ASI recorded it, abandoned, in 2012.
The Kakatiyas built this around the 12th century, under Rudra Deva, as a command post rather than a palace, and put it on a hillock north of the town where…
Come knowing the dates and the hill reads differently. Anapotanayaka of the Recherla Nayakas shifted his capital from Anumagallu to Rachakonda at around 1360…
Sikkim
A Tibet museum in Gangtok, named after Sir Tashi Namgyal, the eleventh Chogyal of Sikkim. It is a working institution as much as a display.
Punjab
Just outside Patiala, and with two histories inside one set of walls.
This was never a destination. It was a highway-inn on the Mughal military road between Delhi and Lahore, where the royal couple broke the journey going up and…
Hussainiwala village sits out past Firozpur city, and the memorial there is held for Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru.
Odisha
Ruined fortifications in Khurda district, first inhabited around the 7th to 6th centuries BCE.
Jharkhand
Built in 1670 under the Mughals and in the Mughal style, this is one of the oldest mosques in Jharkhand, standing in Chitarpur town in Ramgarh district.
Delhi
Asia's largest wholesale spice market, trading since the 17th century, on the road that runs west off the end of Chandni Chowk beside the Fatehpuri Masjid, a…
Chhattisgarh
A queen built this. Mumunda Devi of the Chindaka Naga dynasty raised it around 1111 AD in Narayanpal village, near where the Indravati meets the Narangi…
Bihar
One chamber hewn into a single hemispherical block of granite, 20 km southwest of Rajgir and 10 km southwest of Hisua.
Madhya Pradesh
A pillared hall at Dhar, begun under the 11th-century Paramara king Raja Bhoja as a centre of Sanskrit learning, and large enough that historians put the…
This one is a hotel now, which is the first thing to know: the Taj group took it over after the 2010 renovation, so access comes with a booking rather than a…
The grave itself is sealed underground at the base of the dome and not open to the public, so what is on offer is the shell above it: elaborate stucco…
Hansi's fort sits on the eastern bank of Amti lake and covers thirty acres, and in its working life it is said to have controlled eighty other forts in the…
Manipur
Maibam Lotpa Ching, the Red Hills, carries a museum to the Battle of Imphal and the other fighting that crossed Manipur between March and July 1944.
The building was once a British headquarters and a jail, which gives the Partition Museum in Amritsar's town hall a weight the exhibits never have to…
Every dome here was once overlaid with blue and green tile; a few pieces are all that survive, and knowing that changes how the bare stone reads.
Check the season before you set out. The cave floods through the monsoon, typically mid-June to mid-October or early November, and the authorities close it…
Everything here came out of one man's fieldwork. Bulu Imam found Hazaribagh district's first rock art at Isco, brought more than a dozen meso-chalcolithic…
Nagaland
Bayavü Hill in Kohima holds a collection gathered from all over Nagaland: ancient sculptures, traditional dress and inscriptions, kept by the state Department…
Himachal Pradesh
The permanent exhibition is titled I am Tibetan, this is my story, and it runs across ten sections.
Daman & Diu
The fort at the eastern tip of Diu island exists because of a bad bargain.
The man who paid for this necropolis, Nawab Sir Khursheed Jah Bahadur, made sure his own family got the best of it.
Twenty caves are cut into a hillside near Vidisha, and one relief alone justifies the stop: Vishnu as Varaha the man-boar, lifting the earth from the water…
Goa
Built in 1550 as a watchtower on the highest point of Santo Estevão island, this was the easternmost defence of the Velhas Conquistas, set there to keep an…
This wall carries the names of Sikhs killed in the 1984 riots that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination.
Meghalaya
Over fifty metres long and thirty metres above the ground: this is reckoned the longest living root bridge there is, and it is the height, not the length…
A capital in the 1st millennium, known to inscriptions as Mallar, Mallari and Sarabhapur; what is left today is village-sized.
Sekta village holds one of six burial mounds identified in the area, and the place is a protected archaeological site as much as a museum.
There is almost nothing to look at when you get up there, and it hardly matters.
The name sets you up for a comparison the site does not need.
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