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Background: The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab incursions starting in the 8th century and Turkish in the 12th were followed by those of European traders, beginning in the late 15th century. By the 19th century, Britain had assumed political control of virtually all Indian lands. Indian armed forces in the British army played a vital role in both World Wars. Nonviolent resistance to British colonialism led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU brought independence in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India faces pressing problems such as the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, massive overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife.




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Hallo allemaal, wat kan er veel gebeuren in 2 dagen, zeg! Wat is het mooi allemaal hier! Ik heb er geen woorden voor, maar ga toch proberen het te beschrijven. Ik zal maar bij het begin beginnen. Zondagochtend landde ik van een goede vlucht die 10 uur duurde op Bengaluru airport. In het vliegveld kon ik al genieten van de kleding en mooie kleuren van alle mensen, dat werd nog een keer bevestigd toen ik met een busje van het instituut naar de campus werd gebracht. Op de campus aangekomen werd ik door Maru rondgeleid en kreeg van hem de sleutel [View Full Entry]

freeksel - Freek Bakker | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 20th 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=392438]


One of the more disappointing aspects of Goa for me was that the famous party scene that had put Goa on the map in the 90's now seems to have shrivelled up and died. The government have placed an 11pm curfew on loud music anywhere in Goa so the days of loud pumping music into the small hours are all but over. There is the odd 'secret' party that you only find out about on the night, but these can be hard to get to and you never really know what to expect. Also we were there in the off season [View Full Entry]

duggboy - James Duggan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 31st 2009 | 469 Views | [diary=383283]

Fort Cochin
Bed Bugs...
Shir

By KatandEd
March 17th 2009
Hampi and Bangalore Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
Goa to Hospet We left Goa and headed further down the south coast to the state of Karnataka. Our first stop was Hampi, a lovely ruined city in the desert, with what seemed like hundreds of ancient temples to see. The town that we arrived in Hospet was not so lovely - filled with rudish people and a lot of cramped hustle and bustle. It was a big change from the tourist friendly locals of Goa to the more closed conservatives of Hospet - Katherine quickly learned that her dress code had to once again change from the leering men and [View Full Entry]

KatandEd - Our Travels | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 24th 2009 | 247 Views | [diary=382473]

Doing the dishes
Boat ride to Hampi island
Rice boat back...

You hear a lot of stories about India. Confronting, incredible, tough, traffic worse than anything else in Asia. We don't really know yet whether these things will be borne out by experience. But let me tell you how it has gone so far. We arrived from Singapore at 11.30 pm on a Tiger flight. We were met by Anantha, Raghu, Dash and Shankar, loaded into our vehicle and delivered with efficiency down a wide and pretty empty highway into Bangalore. T and T were delivered to house of Illi and Vijaya. She is the sister of Ramakrishna who is the person [View Full Entry]

Slowfeet - Slowfeet | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 13th 2009 | 291 Views | [diary=381316]

Australia?
The Bull
Lunch Stop

So, I've decided to completely immerse myself in India and have taken up Bollywood dancing classes twice a week, which turned out to be great fun today. We were learning a dance to a song called "Daisy-Girl". There are four indian women and luckily a new girl from Canada joined today too, so I have a partner in crime who doesn't know any of the songs or steps either :-). Hopefully my dance and drama classes I did when I was young will stand to me :-). Cael spent the hour playing in a playroom with Julie, (who works for us) [View Full Entry]

JackieO - Jacqueline | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 17th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=373195]


By JackieO
February 12th 2009
Back to Bangalore Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
Well, after a very long break, I am back in Bangalore!! I came back three weeks ago and brought some visitors with me from Ireland in the form of my mother and two aunts. I wasn't sure how they would take to my adopted home, but after an initial culture shock on the way from the airport at six in the morning, they took to the place like ducks to water. They left today after thoroughly enjoying their three week trip to India. They may not have ever envisaged a trip to India, but they certainly made the very most of [View Full Entry]

JackieO - Jacqueline | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 12th 2009 | 133 Views | [diary=372998]

The Lalitha Mahal Palace little Prince
The Royal family

By Ban Trav
January 29th 2009
Swiftly introduced.  Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
With India's major cities, I think it's a pretty universal opinion that the traffic, pollution, noise and smell blight your unexpecting senses with a considerable thump. Eventually it all becomes as unnoticable as a Coca Cola advert in that you get used to it's subliminal message, mostly because you are forced into its ways. Bangalore itself is a mixture of affluence from it's IT boom to a more lower class way of life, the latter being evident where I stay in Indira Nagar. This is probably the case for all major cities, but this one doesn't seem to have as much [View Full Entry]

Ban Trav - Sukhi | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 12th 2009 | 56 Views | [diary=368340]


By thedaydreamer84
January 27th 2009
Bangalore Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
Hi, Me and my 3 buddies started our trip from Kochi, our hometown. We've been planning for this trip to Himachal from sept, but it took us 4 months to finally pool in the money and also to quit our jobs , so that we can leave hassle free. Although we were on a tight budget, we did not have an planned vacation. We had decided to stay till we dry out of cash. And so we did. My description will be more on the expenses side and also regarding other things like places to go , stay and to eat. [View Full Entry]

thedaydreamer84 - Abhilash | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 27th 2009 | 71 Views | [diary=367653]

Purple Haze

Bangalore is a city of amazing contrasts. Side by side with multinational suit wearing office workers eating Mc Donalds for Breakfast are sack laden bullock carts, steered by lunghi wearing barefoot men. We picked up our driver from the train station. He was carrying a sign that said: " Wel. Come. Mr Willsee. Monn". That made me like him straight away. Our journey to Mysore took three and a half hours so in all we had been travelling from 9am Wednesday and got to our hotel at 1.30pm Friday! The hotel is called the Green Hotel " and the clue is [View Full Entry]

willdub - Will Seaman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 11th 2009 | 111 Views | [diary=362312]


By aimwest
December 30th 2008
Dec 30, 2008 Khajuraho Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
hi all. i don't kow what region this is so i just guess and put whatever. i find myself in khajuraho right now. i saw today the sex temples and it wasn't all that sexy... lol. .. however it was absolutely AMAZING to see the details ofthis temples. the people here areabsolutely sooo nice and hellpful. most people here are farmers and those small percentage that are not depend on tourism. this place in a few years will def be happening sinceby 2012 they will have their own intl airport and just three days ago they have their own train station. [View Full Entry]

aimwest - aimee west | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 30th 2008 | 73 Views | [diary=358550]