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oldest Christ-Church-Bardhaman, W.Bengal. sonder.co.inThe small town of Bardhaman is one of the oldest towns in India like Varanasi (UP) dating back to about 5000 BC (the Mesolithic or Late Stone Age...
View ArticleThe Curzon Gate, a fine colonial archway, Bardhaman, West Bengal - honoring...
Curzon Gate, 1942, Bardhaman, WB, pinrest.comCurzon Gate, Bardhaman, WB, en.wikipedia.orgThe hisorical town of Bardaman of Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal has innumerable monuments of grandeur...
View ArticleJagat Seth, a banker to the Nawabs and the English company, Bengal!! - his...
Jagat Seth, the banker of the world, Bengal, 1700s tbsnews.netEIC's victim,Nawab Siraj of Bengal, Nawab Siraj of Bengal, wikipedia The arrival of Robert Clive of East India company from its Madras...
View ArticleSri Sankara Vimana Mantap, Triveni Sangam, Allahabad - a long dream of senior...
Sri Sankara Vimana Mantab, Allahabad, UP triphobo.comThe three story Sankara Vimana Mantap,, a Hindu temple dedicated to Hindu gods was consecrated on 2 December 2018 at Prayag, Allahabad by Sri...
View ArticleIndomitable Tamil scholar U. V. Swaminatha Iyer who saved many classical...
Tamil literary giant U.V. Swaminatha Iyer,en.wikipedia.orgIn the area of Tamil literary work, great Tamil scholar and researcher U.V Swaminatha Iyer (19 February 1855 - 28 April 1942) stands as a giant...
View ArticleThe Chennai house of Tamil scholar U.V. Swaminatha Iyer's historical house is...
demolition of Tamil Scholar U.V. Swaminatha Iyer's house, Chennai thehindu.comU ve S Iyer, commommorative stamp 2006 tamilandvedas.comIs there any justification to have demolished the house of an...
View ArticleSheherwali (Oswal) Jains, their financial prowess in Bengal (18th century)
Murshidabad,WB, Sheherwali Jain business community, theindianquest.comThat roughly 300 years ago there existed a prominent and power Indian business community whose prominent members were offering...
View ArticleColesworthy Grant, world's first crusader against animal cruelty, Early...
Add captionMemorial, Calcutta. Colesworthy Grant /noisebreak.comMemorial, Clesworthy Grant, Calcutta,notebreak.comColesworthy Grant was instrumental in establishing the Society for Prevention of...
View ArticleColorful Fontainhas, the old Latin quarter and the newly restored pub...
Goa's Fountanhas,India Alamy.comGoa's Fountanhas,India golokaso.comSoho, Goa rchitecturaldigest.inGoa is bestowed with many site-seeing sites - old Portuguese churches of heritage value, old...
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Rajkumar Shukla, Champaran, Bihar, patriot. patnabeats.comRajkumar Shukla, champaran englishempire3292.blogspot.comAbove image: Rajkumar Shukla, a patriot helped Gandhiji launch his very first...
View ArticleSuperstitions, jinx and some Hindu temples, of India
Superstition is a strong belief involving a prediction of future impact on somebody or something or on the society as a whole by supernatural forces. Such a belief, in the absence of evidence,...
View ArticleGod Muthappan, Parassinikadavu, Kerala - here Thayyam and liquor offerings...
Sri Muthappan temple and Thayyam dancers, N.Kerala mykeralatravel.com/Muthappan temple, North Kerala. indiatravelblog.com Among the strange and unconventional offerings made to Hindu gods in India,...
View ArticleThe stately Manikyavelu Mansion - a colonial bungalow, Bangaluru, now houses...
Manikyavelu Mansion, Bangaluru. makeheritagefun.comThere are innumerable heritage structures across India that are slowing dying because of inadequate funds provided by the government, poor management...
View ArticleDemolition of Villa Pottipati, a heritage British bungalow and survival of...
In the colonial past when the influx of more British moved into Bangaluru city in the then princely state of Mysore that had a congenial climate, over period of time to serve in the English company...
View ArticleThe Indian govt. increased the number of monuments on its list under the ASI...
Time Wheel, Sun temple of Konarak, Orissa, : indianmonumentattractions.wordpress.com Indian monuments,Maps of India com. Across India lies a vast and diverse...
View ArticleThe Bowring Institute, a remarkable colonial building, Bangaluru - restored...
The Bowring Inst. Bangaluru, KA thehindu.comOld picture The Bowring Inst. Bangaluru. apkpure.comThe Bowring Institute, Bangaluru, thehindu.comThe Bowring Institute, Bangaluru city is yet another...
View ArticleWellington Lodge, Mysuru, KA, a monument named after first Duke of Wellington...
Wellington Lodge, Mysuru. commons.wikimedia.orgArthur Wellesley Alamy comAbove image: Arthu Wellesley, an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political...
View ArticleGavi Gangadhareshwara Temple near Bangaluru, a famous cave rock-cut monument,...
Gavi_Gangadhareshwara temple. godsownweb.blogspot.com/Unlike Maharashtra, Orissa and other states north of the Vibdhya mountains, rock-cut temples occur in a few places in the southern India. In...
View ArticleChennakesava temple, Somanathapura, Karnataka marks stone carvings of amazing...
Chennakesava temple at Somanathpura en.wikipedia.org Chennakesava temple at Somanathpura, KA outer covered path mytriphack.comThe rulers of the Hoysala...
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