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India - Udaipur to Pushkar

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January 26th 2011
DAY 17 25th January 2011 Our driver offered to drive to Pushkar via Chittorgarh so that we could see the battle scarred Fort. It was the mightiest of Rajastans forts and therefore the target for successive invasions in 1303, 1535 before it was finally captured in 1567. The first siege by Sultan Khilji in 1303 resulted in over 13,000 women committing jaubar which is a form of mass suicide by burn ... 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