Art and culture
Literature, music, architecture and the traditions behind them.
Culture is how a society stores what it has learned. These pages cover the forms, the works and the history of the traditions themselves.
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Indian classical music
Classical music from the Indian subcontinent
Indian classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. It is generally described using terms like Shastriya Sangeet and Marg Sangeet. It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani and the South Indian expr…
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Sanskrit literature
Literature of Sanskrit language
Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-st…
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Taj Mahal
Marble mausoleum in Agra, India
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his late wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb…
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Cinema of India
The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. India does not have a single national film industry for any particular language; instead, Ind…
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- Indian history — From the Indus Valley to independence — the periods, the people and the turning points.
- Geography of India — Rivers, mountains, states, climate and the land itself.
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