Fatehpur Sikri

Mughal architecture and Holi

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March 9th 2007
My last post seems to have confused a lot of people, but that is fine, I like confusion!! This one will be more like the other ones... So this is what I have been doing and where I have been: First I went to Fatapur Sikri which nowadays is a small village, but in the day was the capital of the Mughal Empire, that ruled India... But only for 50 years or so, it was built on the orders of Emperor ... 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