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  1. Prototype and smaller version of the Taj Mahal, Aurangabad, India.


  2. The Royal Reception Hall at the Red Fort in Agra, India. The city became the capital of the Mughal Empire during the reign of the great Akbar in the sixteenth century.


  3. The Great Stupa at Sarnath, near Varanasi in central India, where Gautama Buddha preached his first sermon to disciples in the fifth century B.C.E.


  4. The columns of a mosque near the old city of Delhi, India. These elaborate columns were pilfered from a Hindu temple after the area was conquered by Muslim warriors in the eleventh century.


  5. The Hindu temple complex at Mahabalipuram, in southern India. The two taller towers are gopurams, which serve to highlight the entrance into the temple complex.


  6. An elephant carvfed out of rock at Mahabalipuram. Rock carving was one of India's greatest artistic achievements during the first millennium C.E.


  7. A man making pottery in the traditional fashion in India.


  8. Lingam, the phallic symbol used for the worship of the Hindu god Siva, shown here on an altar in the sacred caves of Ellora, India.


  9. Elephant dung being collected to be burned into ash, which is then applied by priests to the foreheads of the Hindu faithful as a holy blessing, here at the Kapaleeshwara Temple in Madras, India.


  10. Typical lean-to shacks clustered around the city walls in Madras, India. Shacks such as these are familiar in many developing countries and are often inhabited by rural workers coming to the city hoping for a better life.


  11. Lingam, the phallic symbol used for the worship of the Hindu god Siva, shown here on an altar in the sacred caves of Ellora, India.


  12. Temple purification tank and tower at the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai, India.


  13. Portuguese church at site where Vasco da Gama arrived in Cochin, India, in 1498


  14. Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, which houses the reputed sacred tooth of the Buddah.


  15. The Indian elephant, as opposed to its African brother, can be trained to work. Here, in Sri Lanka, this elephant lugs large logs at a lumber yard.


  16. A cow with painted horns in Madras. The sacred cow continues to be a common sight in Hindu-settled areas in modern India.


  17. Victoria Railway Station in Bombay (today, Mumbai). The garish building shows the combination of Gothic and Mughal-style architecture that was popular in India during the Victorian era.
   
 
   
 
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