Can you find India on a map? What else do you know about this South Asian nation with about 1.3 billion people?
Can you find India on a map? What else do you know about this South Asian nation with about 1.3 billion people?
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How Much Do You Know About India?
Compiled byJOHN OTISSEPT. 14, 2020
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Geography
India’s capital,, has innumerable charms — ruin-studded gardens, a growing contemporary art scene and diverse regional cuisines.
Kolkata
Mumbai
New Delhi
Thiruvananthapuram
History
In 1919, a massacre of protestors at a public garden in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar triggered the beginning of the end ofcolonial rule in India.
British
French
Japanese
Portuguese
Architecture
Every day during non-pandemic times, about 25,000 tourists visit the, a 17th-century mausoleum in Agra, built by the Muslim emperor Shah Jahan for his favorite wife.
Palace of the Shirvanshahs
Shah-i-Zinda
Taj Mahal
Tomb of Jahangir
Culture
Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam are just a few styles of Indian.
dance forms
farming techniques
martial arts
sculpture processes
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