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February 10th 2010
The morning after my missed train I took a bus to Jaipur, the capital of the desert state of Rajasthan. This is the “gateway to Rajasthan,” and transfers to any of the places I was planning on going in the next 10 days are made from here with ease. It’s also home to the many, many palaces and Havelis of the old Maharajas that one sees in Indian brochures, and I determined that I wanted to ... read more

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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