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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…
Bhongir (Bhuvanagiri) Fort sits on a single colossal granite rock said to date to the 12th-century Western Chalukya ruler Tribhuvanamalla, from whom the town…
The Asaf Jahis ran a state from here, and the building still belongs to the family even though it now works as a museum.
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.
Almost nothing is left. The Salar Jungs, five of whom served as prime ministers of Hyderabad state, lived here close to Charminar, and Nehru inaugurated 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…
Golconda Fort stands on a granite hill on the western outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana, encircled by a roughly 10-km outer wall with 87 semicircular bastions.
The Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad is one of the oldest and largest mosques in India, begun in the 16th century by the Qutb Shahi rulers.
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…
The fort is the approach; the temple on top is what people actually come for.
The man who paid for this necropolis, Nawab Sir Khursheed Jah Bahadur, made sure his own family got the best of it.
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.
Come knowing the dates and the hill reads differently. Anapotanayaka of the Recherla Nayakas shifted his capital from Anumagallu to Rachakonda at around 1360…
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…
Warangal, the former capital of the Kakatiya dynasty, is a treasure of medieval South Indian art.
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