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Former capitals in India
- JodhpurJodhpur sits near the geographic centre of Rajasthan, surrounded by the stark landscape of the Thar Desert, and its old town is painted almost entirely blue.
- ShahjahanabadShahjahanabad was born in 1638, when Shah Jahan commanded his chief architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, to build an entirely new walled capital city.
- JaipurJaipur is painted pink, and the reason is a guest. In 1876, during the rule of Sawai Ram Singh II, the city was coated in pink to welcome Albert Edward…
- MaduraiMadurai is often called "Thoongaa Nagaram", which means "the city that never sleeps". It sits on the banks of the Vaigai River in the Indian state of Tamil…
- RajkotRajkot sits at the geographic heart of the Kathiawar peninsula in Gujarat, and its name carries a quiet ambition: "Raj" for royalty, "Kot" for fort.
- BijapurBijapur stands 519 kilometres northwest of Bengaluru, inside the Deccan Peninsula, and its story stretches from the Stone Age to a cricket franchise.
- AgraAgra sits on the banks of the Yamuna river, about 230 km south-east of Delhi, and it holds within its borders a monument that has become a symbol of an…
- PorbandarPorbandar sits on the coast of Gujarat, a city that most of the world knows only through one name: Mahatma Gandhi. He was born here, and that single fact has…
- PunePune sits at the confluence of the Mula and Mutha rivers, on the western margin of the Deccan Plateau, 560 metres above sea level.
- AhmedabadAhmedabad stands on the banks of the Sabarmati River in western India, and on the 26th of February 1411, a sultan put a stake in the ground at a spot called…
- Fatehpur SikriFatehpur Sikri stands 35.7 km from Agra, a city that was built, gloried in, and then simply walked away from. Emperor Akbar raised it from a rocky ridge in…
- AhmednagarAhmednagar sits in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats, a city that receives barely a third of the rainfall that Mumbai gets, yet has stood at the center of…
- AurangabadAurangabad sits in the Deccan Traps, a landscape of ancient lava flows, and carries more names than almost any city in India.