Thar Desert house

The 3 J's of Rajastan

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March 24th 2008
JODHPUR (THE BLUE CITY) Jodhpur has to be the busiest and dirtiest place we have visited in India so far, but looking down from Meherangarh Fort and the palaces that dominate the skyline the city looks beautiful. Many of the houses are painted blue apparently to deter termites, but blue is also the colour of the high-caste Brahma of which there are large numbers here. The fort and palaces are ... 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