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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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By beetboxer
March 9th 2010
Caves! Asia » India » Maharashtra » Aurangabad
We have to relearn to do everything again here, from crossing streets to taking the train. We have successfully taken the train twice now and have a pretty good grasp of how to do it. We travelled to Aurangabad by an overnight train to go see the ancient Buddhist/Hindu/Jain caves of Ajanta and Ellora. We took sleeper class, which is non a/c and the lowest class with beds. The eight hour train ride cost us about 2.50 each. All the people around us we very nice and peppered Brian with questions about Canada. There were a pair of antisocial European travellers [View Full Entry]

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Indian students
Bibik a Maqbara
Bibik tower

Die ersten Tage in Mumbai waren definitiv gewoehnungsbeduerftig. Die Stadt hat 16.8 Millionen Einwohner und ist ziemlich chaotisch. Nach unserem langen Flug haben wir ein Taxi zu unserem Hotel genommen. Es ist sehr zentral gelegen und relativ sauber auch wenn es von aussen ziemlich heruntergekommen aussieht (siehe Foto 1). Auf dem zweiten Foto stehe ich bei dem angeblichen Zentrum der Welt. Der Pfeiler markiert die Stelle wo Lord Ram seinen Pfeil hereingeschossen hat. Das dritte Foto zeigt Chowpatty Beach wo Elaine und ich einen Nachmittag verbracht haben. Schwimmen sollte man dort nicht, da das Wasser laut dem Lonely Planet giftig ist. [View Full Entry]

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Patrick at the center of the Earth
Chowpatty Beach
On Elephant Island

By beautyandbeyond
February 15th 2010
bugs in bombay Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai
So it may have been a reasonable price but I ended up paying dearly for it as we had BEDBUGS..dundunduuuun! If any of you don't know what they are, they are an ant sized parasite, shaped like a small flat bettle/flea kind of thing that hide in bedding and furniture and they come out at night once they sence your heat and bite you in lines sucking your blood and leaving you with either a small itchy bite or a big red burning whelt, I got the latter, all down both arms, my back my stomach and my face. This gave [View Full Entry]

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painted bus
Chowpatty beach

Hey guys, I’m getting better at my frequency of blogging, two in two weeks, not bad.... So this week we went to Aurangabad to see the Ajanta and Ellora Caves, according to our Lonely Planet those are part of the highlights in Maharashtra, definitely not to miss, so we went to Aurangabad to see as archaeological treasures. In Aurangabad we stayed at the MTDC hotel (5 minutes walking from the train station), you will find those hotel all across India since they are government owned. This one is particularly basic, don’t even count on a soap bar.... However the price is [View Full Entry]

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Buddha
The hills
Sumo fighter

By Denne
February 12th 2010
(5) Mumbai and Commuter trains Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai
Day 4 - Mumbai & Vasai Road. We woke up early with the intentions of getting our full English breakfast coupled with free wi-fi, the free wi-fi was true enough but the full English was us dreaming, a dream brought into reality by us enthusiastically detailing the wonder of said meal which gave him no choice but to nod along with us smiling at our enthusiasm. Our fault I guess then. Although I’d not typed up a blog yet, it was good to get on facebook and let people know we were still alive, all be it at 5am GMT so [View Full Entry]

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Pleased with the discovery
Lovely shaded seating.
Exotic flowers and buildings in the background, Classic Mumbai

Well, the plan was to be on my way to Canada by now. But as I said before, India is always full of surprises! This time I suppose it is my airline that surprised me by sending me an e-mail saying my flight was canceled and I was now booked to leave in 6 days!!!!!!! At other times this might have been a good news, but not this time, as I am supposed to be in a workshop in Canada this weekend, and in Costa Rica in 5 days... Plus, when I am ready to leave, I am ready to leave. [View Full Entry]

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Day 3 - 06/02 Mumbai and Elephanta island. The Oz girls we’d originally planned on going with were feeling pretty low as they were fairly heavy on the booze last night so we headed onwards and upwards without them. On our second time to the India Gate (the ferries to elephanta island leave from there) we didn’t get harassed too much at all, a couple of “want big balloon?” *Boom* sellers and a couple of people wanting to take a picture of us with a decent SLR and print it off and give it to us for some ridiculous price (we [View Full Entry]

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Misty sea
I love boats
Big oil tanker waiting to unload

We set off around noon, and with us on Emily and the boys cycling, we went on our little journey over the river by ferry and across the border into Maharashtra. We found paradise beach again ( the one we went to a few months ago whilst in Arambol) and set up camp. Jack and rob had tents and cooking stoves, but we had to make our tent out of sticks, blankets and a mosquito net, turns out we learnt alot from our friend ray mears! We cooked our dinner of local veg and noodles and had tea after our swim [View Full Entry]

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By alannagazelle
February 9th 2010
Rajistan Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai
Since I owe you all a good long blog, I thought I'd do this one more in the form of a narrative. Hope you are captivated :-) To recover from my first Indian wedding I headed off to the heartland of India's tourism, Rajistan. Ah the land of fairytale palaces, desert landscapes, and ruined forts that speak of a time of great valor and romanticism. I decided first to visit Bundi, to see the place where some of Kipling's prose was inspired. The rambling hill top fort and brightly painted Havelis, and the monkey colony guarding the ruins of the fort [View Full Entry]

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By danandkels
February 4th 2010
Mumbai & Mehndi Asia » India » Maharashtra » Mumbai
After a lazy and amazing week on the beach in Varkala, Dan and I flew from Trivandrum to Mumbai. We didn’t have a lot of expectations for Mumbai and accepted that it would be pretty chaotic after a week of sun, sand and Kingfishers; but after a few days of hitting the streets and taking in all the sights (Flora Fountain, Crawford Market, Colaba Causeway, Elephanta Island, Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, Gateway of India, Victoria Terminus Train Station and Chowpatty Beach) our experience in Mumbai was quite positive. While it is chaotic, there seems to be some order within [View Full Entry]

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Indian Mehndi
Indian Mehndi
Indian Mehndi


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