Indian cuisine

Some certainly know the problem: the piggy bank is blank this year. The India vacation further than ever. The culprits? One must not be deprived of the rising fuel oil prices, the running costs, bad economic situation, etc. however, India, however, also completely. Since not everything what looks at first sight afterwards as if one can do anyhow nothing against it is also real in such a way. Thus there are also for the fuel oil prices solutions if one enquires only on the Internet after the right suppliers. (more…)

Wellness vacation in India

India has found out during the past years as a tourist aim considerable inflow. More and more people resolve to travel there and to get to know the Indian culture. It agrees with the trend that typical holidays at the seaside become always unpopular and getting to know of foreign cultures completely stands on top. … Continue reading

Yoga and Ayurveda

Of the health tourism or the crush on traditional Indian forms of the meditation, the massage or remedial methods win in today’s India more and more in meaning. The country of origin of the yoga and the Ayurveda irritates many tourists to get to know these cultural forms of the wellness treatments once in their … Continue reading

From the independence till this day

Independence of India (1945) The time between the first and the Second World War is probably the most important time for the independence of India generally. In this time the passive opposition of Mahatma Gandhi falls against the British colonial rule. As a Mohandas Karamchand he was born and today one knows him under the … Continue reading

Painting in India

The first artistic reports and paintings appeared in India already during the Indus culture; indeed, here the first art forms were still rather primitive and limited mainly to paintings on ceramics. Bigger picturesque pieces of art find themselves only in the time of the Gupta; above all the cave paintings of Ajanta are worth mentioning … Continue reading

Traditionally Indian dance

In India the dance takes a special value, because he is looked as a religious action. There are traditional proofs in India seven different dance styles: With the Bharatnatyam the movements are referred very much earth, i.e. the movements tend down and jumps or similar are rare. This form of the dance is extremely demanding … Continue reading

Indian music

As a very old culture steeped in tradition the basic art forms exist like music, dance and painting already very long in India. Often there is the sign which the first forms were even already known of the Indus culture. Traditional art forms have been influenced by the moved history of India, however, often either … Continue reading

Middle Ages

Delhi sultanate (in 1206-1526) In spite of an increasing Islamic influence, this could never assert itself completely in India; nevertheless, this should change in 1192 after the defeat Rajputses Prithvirajas III against Muhammad of Ghur. The capital of this new Indian empire was Delhi which played from this time to an especially weight-bearing role for … Continue reading

Architecture of India

The Indian architecture probably counts to most varied in the whole world. One nowhere discovers so many splendid constructions to so narrow space like in India. Because of many different people and religions in India the influence on the architecture is marked largely and from several cultures.

British colonial age and empire

British colony (1813 – 1948) Bit by bit a superior strength got of Great Britain in India to win. After other European states had been edged out of the Indian subcontinent, nothing more was in way of a power removal. The British East India Company which stood first only in commercial problems with India got … Continue reading