Category Archives: India
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
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
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
History of India
India can look back at a long history, hand back origins and traditions far. India was stamped by the influence of the most different cultural forms in the course of the centuries and was made him what it is today. Here only some of the most important stations of the Indian history should be lighted … Continue reading
General information over India
The country India lies in the south of Asia and becomes from the natural borders of the Indian ocean in the west, the Bay of Bengal is limited in the east and the Himalayas in the north. With a surface of more than 3 million km ² India is nearly 10 times bigger than Germany … Continue reading
Goa trips
The little one former Portuguese enclave of Goa (Whole surface 3.813 km2, the most important Sprachen:Marathi, Konkan and Gujarati) is still the most important tourist aim of India. It kept till this day beside the old Portuguese life style, this is even more astonishing than Goa belongs meanwhile already many years to India. Info articel:trip … Continue reading
Punjab
The Punjab was the part of India which had to suffer during the division mostly from devastations and damages. Even more astonishingly is the fact that the Punjab is today the richest state of the subcontinent. The Punjab owns no mineral resources and no natural advantages which could have led to it, it was purely … Continue reading
Uttranchal and Bhutan
In the northern Indian state of Uttaranchal the regions of the high-level Himalayas which have been explained by the visitors to the scenery-nicest of the highest mountains of our earth consider. For the Hindus the Indian federal state of Uttaranchal the holy country, Garhwal is called because in the Himalayas the holy rivers of way … Continue reading
Sikkim
Still up to short Sikkim (New house) was an independent kingdom. Though it was connected by the protectorate contracts with India by which of the Indian government even the perception of the foreign affairs as well as the defence policy was conceded.
North east India
The area of the north the east is seldom visited by the tourists, however, even from the Indians. The traveller in these regions should be prepared for simple relations. The infrastructure is developed only weakly and the lodgings and means of transportation are simple. Info articel:homestay in kohima