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Agra
Under the Moghul emperor Akbar (1542-1605) and his successors Jahangir (1605-1627) and Shah Jahan (1628-1658), Agra flourished. However, after the reign of Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb (1658-1707), and the... (more) -
Bhopal
Bhopal is best known for the 1984 toxic-gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant, which killed an estimated 20,000 people and injured thousands more. Perhaps for this reason, the city has been slow to... (more) -
Bodhgaya
In central Bihar, one of the poorest and most corrupt states in India, is one of the four main pilgrimage centers of Buddhism: Bodhgaya. Here, sometime around 520 BC (or later—the commonly accepted... (more) -
Gwalior
Now a busy commercial city in Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior traces its history back to a legend: the hermit saint Gwalipa cured a chieftain named Suraj Sen of leprosy. On the hermit's advice, Suraj Sen founded... (more) -
Khajuraho
This small Madhya Pradesh village, with the Vidhya hills as a backdrop, is very rural, and being 395 km (245 mi) southeast of Agra, it seems far removed from any substantial economic activity. Yet Khajuraho... (more) -
Lucknow
The capital of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow is—in its lingering self-image, anyway—a city of ornate manners, inherited from the last significant Muslim court to hold sway in North India. Settled... (more) -
Orchha
In the 16th and 17th centuries the Hindu Bundela rulers, allies of the Moghuls, built up Orchha as a provincial capital on the banks of the winding Betwa River. They were great patrons of the arts, and... (more) -
Sarnath
In 528 BC Siddhartha Gautama, having attained enlightenment at Bodhgaya, preached his first sermon (now called Dharma Chakra Pravartan, or Set in Motion the Wheel of Law) in what is today Sarnath's Deer... (more) -
Varanasi
Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, has been the religious capital of Hinduism through all recorded time. No one knows the date of the city's founding, but when Siddhartha Gautama, the historic Buddha, came here... (more)
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