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Me 'n Golden Temple

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A New Religion

April 20th 2006
At the end of my last entry, I was pulling in to Amritsar, home to the holiest temple of the Sikhs. This was a bit of an unexpected detour - I had thought I was going to go straight for the mountains, but I figured that the Golden Temple had to be on the cover of the Eyewitness Guide to India for a reason. After some inquiries, I learned that it could be arranged to make it a stop on the route ... read more
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Indian Flag 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
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