INDEX

• Taj Mahal • Humayun's Tomb

• Hampi • Fatehpur Sikri

• Khajuraho • Valley of Flowers

• Bhimbetka rock shelters • Agra fort

 The Indian heritage
India represents 9 religions, tens of languages, hundreds of ethnicities and cultural
backgrounds and yet works as one nation. India is, without an ounce of doubt, a
testimony for unity in diversity. There were plenty of rulers who had their own set of
heritage sites in India.
Some of the popular rulers were the Rajputs, the Cholas, the Dravidians, the Mughals, the
Mauryans and finally the British raj. Each of the dynasties has left an imprint on the cultural
as well as the political dynamics of the country that we see today.
The heritage sites also represent the sacrifices and the love for the motherland by our
ancestors, other than the fact that people at that time were in fact ahead of us in
architectural, management and engineering expertise.
 Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal is a beautiful and most
attractive historical place in India. It was
built in 1631. It is a cultural monument
of India which was built by the King
Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife
(Mumtaz Mahal) after her death. It is
situated in a big area having lots of
greenery in front and side, a river in
back side, and lake and lawn. Inscription:1983
 Hampi
Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
located in east-central Karnataka, India. It
became the centre of the Hindu Vijayanagara
Empire capital in the14th-century. 
Chronicles left by Persian and European
travelers, particularly the Portuguese, state
Hampi as a prosperous, wealthy and grand
city. By 1500 CE, Hampi-Vijayanagara was
the world's second-largest medieval-era city. Inscription: 1986
 Khajuraho
The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is a
group of Hindu temples in Chhatarpur, Madhya
Pradesh, about 175 kilometers southeast
of Jhansi. They are one of the UNESCO World
Heritage Sites. The temples of Khajuraho were
built in the 10th century A.D. and the group
consists of a dozen of temples. The Khajuraho
temples are admired for their architectural and
Inscription: 1986
sculptural excellence.
 Bhimbetka rock shelters
The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an
archaeological site in central India that spans
the prehistoric Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
periods, as well as the historic period. It
exhibits the earliest traces of human life in
India and evidence of Stone Age starting at
the site in Acheulian times. Discovered in
1957, the complex consists of some 700
shelters and is one of the largest repositories
of prehistoric art in India. The shelters were
designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in Inscription: 2003
2003.
 Humayun’s tomb
Humayun Tomb is a tomb in Delhi that
has been made to save the memory of
Mughal Emperor Humayun. His son Akbar
constructed this in 1569-1572. It is one of
the most beautiful architectural examples of
Mughals in India. It was the first garden-
tomb on the Indian subcontinent, and is
located in Nizamuddin East, Delhi, India,
close to the Dina-panah Citadel that
Humayun found in 1533. It was also the Inscription: 1993
first structure to use red sandstone at such a
scale.
 Fatehpur Sikri
Fatehpur Sikri is a town in the Agra District
of Uttar Pradesh, India. The city itself was
founded as the capital of Mughal Empire in
1571 by Emperor Akbar, serving this role
from 1571 to 1585, when Akbar abandoned
it due to a campaign in Punjab and was
later completely abandoned in 1610. The
complex of monuments and temples, all in
a uniform architectural style, includes one
of the largest mosques in India, the Jama Inscription:1986
Masjid.
 Valley of flowers
Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian
National Park, located in North Chamoli and
Pithoragarh, in the state of Uttarakhand and is
known for its meadows of endemic alpine
flowers and the variety of flora. This richly
diverse area is also home to rare and endangered
animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow
leopard, red fox and blue sheep. At 3352 to 3658
meters above sea level, the gentle landscape of
the Valley of Flowers National Park
complements the rugged mountain wilderness Inscription: 1988
of Nanda Devi National Park to the east.
 Agra fort
Agra Fort is a historical fort in the city of
Agra in India. It was the main residence of
the emperors of the Mughal Dynasty till
1638, when the capital was shifted from Agra
to Delhi. The Agra fort is a UNESCO World
Heritage site. The fort can be more
accurately described as a walled city.
Situated on the site of earlier fortifications, it
lies on the right bank of the Yamuna River
and is connected to another of Agra’s Inscription: 1983
renowned monuments, the Taj Mahal
(downstream, around a bend in the Yamuna),
by a swath of parkland and gardens. 
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