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Panch Mahal - View of Tansen's podium and Daulat Khana  
   

Panch Mahal - View of Tansen's podium and Daulat Khana

The famous musician of Emperor Akbar, Pandit Tansen used to sit in the podium on the water body and render his music. In the background is the treasury known as Daulat Khana-e-khas.
Fatehpur sikri - an Emperor’s obeisance

July 2nd 2008
Sikri is an very old settlement situated in the upper Vindhyachal ranges which is now almost eroded through the vagaries of nature over the eons. It was once situated on the banks of a large natural lake, which has now mostly dried up. It is a pre-historic site where some stone-age tools have been found alongwith Ochre painted Pottery which date back to 2nd Century B.C and its prolonged occupatio ... read more
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Indian Flag 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 in... ... read more
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