India Culture History and Archaeology

Excavations and survey from the University College London on Neolithic and Iron Age southern India.

Professor L. N. Dhar describes the cultural history of the Kashmir district.

A new online display from the British Museum, is meant for middle school students and teachers, but interesting for nearly anybody on the cultures of India.

Lars Fogelin's Archaeology of Early Buddhism is an excellent introduction both to the archaeology of Buddhism and the theory of practice as it works in archaeological studies, based on archaeological investigations of the Buddhist monastery of Thotlakonda.

A free virtual visit to the amazing Taj Mahal is available online now, with slide shows of architectural details and 360 degree virtual tours. Stunning.

The history of exploration of the Harappan civilization by British explorers and archaeologists is not all good news.

A photo essay of several archaeological ruins around India, from my pals at Flickr.

Subtitled "The History, Mystery, and Diversity of India," Kamat's Potpourri has been on the Internet as long as I can remember, and every year it gets a little richer in breadth and information. Truly a Best of the Net resource for Indologists.

Matt Rosenberg, guide to Geography for About, has collected several maps and related information about India, part of his World Atlas.

From the Old Stones website, a collection of many hundreds of photographs from Indian monuments taken by Michael D. Gunther.

Photographs and commentary on 23 architectural sites in India, from anthropologist/wanderer Martin Gray and his Sacred Sites website; click on the Index at the bottom to see the entire list.

Portals of the World is political and cultural information about many world countries, assembled by the United States Library of Congress.

From the inventive Kamat family, an interesting page on survey work of death memorials in central India, with images of sculpted stone and wooden markers.

From Richard Hooker's <i>World Cultures</i> site, maps of the regions and cities of the empires of India's past.

Traveller K. L. Kamat takes a trip 40 km south of Bhopal to see ancient rockshelter drawings.

A plain text description by S. Kalyanaraman of his interpretations of the Sarasvati-Sindhu (Vedic/Indus) civilization.

From Dr. Shanti Pappu, resources for the educator on the archaeology of India, as well as reports on archaeological investigations such as Attirampakkam paleolithic site.

This site seems to certainly live up to its billing as the "ultimate source of information on Indian temples."

From Kamat's Potpourri, a brief summary of the myriad sources of history about the rich cultural heritage of India.

From the inventive Kamat family, an interesting page on survey work of death memorials in central India, with images of sculpted stone and wooden markers.