Bodhgaya
Just a short distance from the town centre, Bodhgaya looks like just another small village -not like one of the most important religious places on Earth.
More photos from India.
February 24, 2007
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Lucknow residency
The "residency" in Lucknow was demolished in the Indian mutiny of 1857. The uprising started when Indian soldiers refused to "bite the cartridge". This referred to the way the paper cartridges containing gunpowder were opened at the time, the problem being that, in order to keep the dry, they had been greased with pork or beef fat. This, of course, was not in accordance with Muslim and Hindu believes. ...