Haveli in Jodhpur

November 14th 2010
Thursday, 28 October We leave Jaisalmer this morning and head out through the dusty desert towards Jodhpur a city of approximately 500,000 inhabitants. The desert I see from the road is a lot different to the desert in Morocco; the Indian desert has a lot more scrub than sand. Our itinerary includes a Jain Temple, but this is fairly average and should be missed. Back in the car, I plu ... 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

31st December 2021

Ravi Singh
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Rajput architecture, not Mughal
This is classic Rajput architecture of the Hindu Rajput kingdoms of Rajasthan, which predate the arrival of the islamic invaders. It is not Mughal architecture. The modern India state of Rajasthan was comprised almost entirely of Hindu kingdoms. Please correct the labels on your photos from Jodhpur and other palaces and forts of Rajasthan. Thanks

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