subject: Incredible India [print this page] India is truly a land of monumentsIndia is truly a land of monuments. India tour lets you discover numerous structures of temples, mosques, canopies and secular structures like tanks, step wells, and bridges, scattered all over the region. This is an enormous wealth and undoubtedly contains great tourism potential. Similarly the sculptural wealth and other objects of culture such as coins, paintings, textiles, arms etc make India a veritable tourist attraction. The monuments of India can be divided into the ancient period and the later period. The monumental heritage of India dates back to the days of Harappa City culture-3500BC to1500BC.
The practice of preserving the remains of an imminent personality below accumulated earth was long in existence. India tour enlightens you about the art of stupa. Buddhist art adopted this practice and the structure built over such a site was called stupas. According to Buddhist sources, the remains of the Buddhas body were divided into eight parts and placed under the Stupas. These during the time of Asoka, were dug out and redistributed which led to the construction of other stupas-the sacred places of Buddhism. The prominent among the Stupas are the Bodhya Gaya in Bihar which was built during the time of the Sunga period and which has remains of the stone pillars. The Sanchi Stupa, theBharat Stupa, the Amaravati, the Nagarjunakonda and Taxila should be visited.
Indian temples symbolized the very ethos of lifestyles of people through the millennium. India tour further takes you on a journey to visit the temples. The panorama of India temple architecture may be seen across at extremely wide chronological and geographical horizon. The ancient texts on Indian temple architecture broadly classify them into three orders- the Nagara, Dravida and Vasara which indicate a tendency to highlight typological features of temples and their geographical distribution. Vesara kind of temples lies between the Vindhyas and the river Krishna.
Your India tour lets you discover the temples of north India which are The Parvati temple at Nachna, the Dasvataratemple, the brick templeat Bhitaragaon, the Vishu temple at Gop, Mundeshwari temple at Ramgarh, and temples at Sanchi; and Jigawa. The temples of the Deccan and Central India are the cave temples at Ellora, Elephanta and Badami, Aihole, and Pattedakal.
The temples of western and Central India are Harihara and other temples at Osian, Jelika Mandir, Chandella temples at Khajuraho, temples at Roda, Suntemple at Modhera and Marble temples of the Jains at Mt.Abu. The eastern India also has temples like Parashurameshwar Vital Deul, Mukteshwar, Lingaraj and Rajarani temples (all at Bhubaneshwar); Sun temple at Konark and jagannath temple at Puri. India tour lets you explore the south Indian temples as well. They are the cave temples, the Rathas and the Shore temple of the pallavas at Mahabalipuram; theVaikunthaperumal and Kailasanatha temples at Kanchipuram; Chalukyan structures at Aihole, Badamiand Pattadakal and the Kailas temple at Ellora. The Vesara style comprises of the Buddhist Chaitya halls of the early centuries of the Christian era and situated in the western ghats in the modern state of Maharastra.
