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Allahabad- Varanasi

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December 23rd 2006
Once off the train we had breakfast at a hotel then went into central Allahabad to visit Nehru House, former home of Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi, and occasionally Mahatma Gandhi. It was a base for the Swaraj or Indian liberation movement before they finally achieved independence from the British in 1947. I had been wanting to buy a Rabindranath Tagore book while in India and fo ... 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