* 1279 – The Chola Dynasty of South India falls under attacks by the Hoysala Empire and Pandyan kingdom.

Hoysala architecture () is the building style developed under the rule of the Hoysala Empire between the 11th and 14th centuries, in the region known today as Karnataka, a state of India.

* The Chola dynasty of South India falls under attacks by the Hoysala Empire and Pandyan Kingdom.

File: Belur2 retouched. jpg | Soapstone sculpture on the Hoysala temple at Belur, India

Hoysala architecture is the distinctive building style developed under the rule of the Hoysala Empire in the region historically known as Karnata, today's Karnataka, India, between the 11th and the 14th centuries.

* Sala, Kannada ( South India ) folk hero who killed a tiger ( see Hoysala Empire # History )

File: India, tre dee, salabhanjika, periodo hoysala 1150-1200 da Karnataka. JPG | Salabhanjika or " sal tree maiden ", Hoysala sculpture, Belur, Karnataka

This temple was built by Soma, a Dandanayaka ( commander ) in 1268 under Hoysala king Narasimha III, when the Hoysala Empire was the major power in South India.

Among several styles of Sikharas that obtain in Hindu temple architecture, the three most common ones are the " Dravidian " style prevalent in southern India and the " Nagar " style prevalent almost everywhere else and the third style born from the synthesis of the other two called the Vesara style, seen mostly in Karnataka and most commonly in Hoysala and later Chalukya temples.

There were many powerful dynasties in India such as the Maha Janapadas, Shishunaga Empire, Gangaridai Empire, Nanda Empire, Maurya Empire, Sunga Empire, Kharavela Empire, Kuninda Kingdom, Chola Empire, Chera Empire, Pandyan Empire, Satavahana Empire, Western Satrap Empire, Kushan Empire, Vakataka Empire, Kalabhras Kingdom, Gupta Empire, Pallava Empire, Kadamba Empire, Western Ganga Kingdom, Vishnukundina Empire, Chalukya Empire, Harsha Empire, Shahi Kingdom, Eastern Chalukya Kingdom, Pratihara Empire, Pala Empire, Rashtrakuta Empire, Paramara Kingdom, Yadava Empire, Solanki Kingdom, Western Chalukya Empire, Hoysala Empire, Sena Empire, Eastern Ganga Empire, Kakatiya Kingdom, Kalachuri Empire, Delhi Sultanate, Deccan Sultanates, Ahom Kingdom, Vijayanagar Empire, Mysore Kingdom, Mughal Empire, Maratha Empire, Sikh Empire etc.

In the year 1120 AD, the Hoysala King, Veera Ballala ruled the Deccan plateau or the South of India.

Mughal rulers introduced Central Asian art and architecture to India.

Humayun's return from Persia, accompanied by a large retinue of Persian noblemen, signaled an important change in Mughal court culture, as the Central Asian origins of the dynasty were largely overshadowed by the influences of Persian art, architecture, language and literature and also there are many stone carved and Persian language In India from the time of Humayun also thousands of Persian manuscript in India.

Above all it is obligatory to mention here that India became the richest centre of the arts, crafts and architecture and some of the best of the architects, artisians, craftsmens, painters and writers of the world resided in his empire, it is believed that the Mughal Empire had the highest gross domestic produce in the world.

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In Ladakh, India, the Ladakh Project is designing Trombe walls that complement Ladakh's traditional architecture and has promoted building them in Ladakhi homes.

Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making three voyages to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration.

They are found mostly in eastern architecture, particularly in Russia, Turkey, India, and the Middle East.

* Sri Venkateswara Institute of Traditional Sculpture and Architecture: Preserve and promote the age-old cultural heritage of India, in the areas of traditional sculpture and architecture.

In India, cenotaphs are a basic element of Hindu architecture borrowed from Islamic architecture, as seen in most of the mausoleums of Mughal Emperors which have two burial chambers, the upper one with a cenotaph, as in Humayun's Tomb, Delhi or the Taj Mahal, Agra, while the real tomb often lies exactly below it, or further removed.

His rule spanned c. 380 – 413 / 415 CE, during which the Gupta Empire achieved its zenith, art, architecture, and sculpture flourished, and the cultural development of ancient India reached its climax .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 92493 / Chandra-Gupta-II >.</ ref > The period of prominence of the Gupta dynasty is very often referred to as the Golden Age of India.

Spectacular and stately edifices erected by Timur and his successors in Samarkand and Herat helped to disseminate the influence of the Ilkhanid school of art in India, thus giving rise to the celebrated Mughal school of architecture.

The Taj Mahal in Agra, India built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife, represents the pinnacle of Mughal Islamic architecture in India and is one of the most recognisable buildings in the world.

Cave temples became prominent throughout western India, incorporating various unique features to give rise to cave architecture in places such as Ajanta and Ellora.

Indian traders brought Indian architecture to South east Asia through various trade routes. Grandeur of construction, beautiful sculptures, delicate carvings, high domes, gopuras and extensive courtyards were the features of temple architecture in India. Examples include the Lingaraj Temple at Bhubaneshwar in Orissa, Sun Temple at Konark in Orissa, Brihadishwar Temple at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu.

Qutub Minar a prominent example of Islamic architecture in India.

Growing awareness of ecology has influenced architecture in India during modern times.

File: Kmjbjhgjhfvhgd. jpg | The Taj Mahal in Agra, arguably the greatest example of Islamic architecture in India.

Climate across India ranges from equatorial in the far south, to alpine in the upper reaches of the Himalayas.

* 2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 ° C ( 122 ° F ) in the region.

* 1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4, 500 men and 12, 000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.

* 1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.

The Silk Road extending from southern Europe through Arabian Peninsula | Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Iran | Persia, India and Java until it reaches China.

The Silk Road extending from Southern Europe through Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Persia, India, Java and Viet Nam until it reaches China.

* Vasco da Gama reaches India for Portugal, creating the first maritime alternative for the Silk Road ( – 1524 )

** Captain Nathaniel Courthope reaches the nutmeg-rich island of Run in the Moluccas to defend it against the Dutch East India Company.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Xuan Zang reaches India.

In chapter 87, Xuanzang finally reaches the borderlands of India, and chapters 87 – 99 present magical adventures in a somewhat more mundane ( though still exotic ) setting.

Podocarpus reaches as far north as southern Japan and southern China in Asia, and Mexico in the Americas, and Nageia into southern China and southern India.

The irrigation projects in progress on these rivers have led to a decrease in the flow of water, which reaches the lower drainage areas in the state of Punjab in India and the Indus Valley in Pakistan.

In the post-independence period, when waves of a resurgent India were hitting even the far reaches of India, the landscape of the upper Himalayan region was only slowly changing, and remained largely inaccessible.

Though the region was not involved in the war directly, the government, cautioned by its losses and war casualties, took rapid steps to secure its borders, set up army bases, and build road networks deep into the upper reaches of Garhwal on India ’ s border with Chinese-ruled Tibet, an area which was until now all but cut off from the rest of the nation.

Shirui Lily or Siroi lily, Lilium mackliniae, is found in the upper reaches of the Siroi hill ranges in the Ukhrul District of Manipur, India, at an elevation of 1730m – 2590m above sea level.

From its origin at Chittagong, it traverses to Sonargaon in the Narayanganj District of central Bangladesh, it reaches India, passing through Howrah, Bardhaman, Durgapur, Asansol, Dhanbad, Aurangabad, Dehri-on-sone, Sasaram, Mohania, Mughalsarai, Varanasi, Allahabad, Kanpur, Kalianpur, Kannauj, Etah, Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Delhi, Panipat, Karnal, Ambala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar.

: Before man reaches the moon your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to England, to India or to Australia by guided missiles .... We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.

The upper reaches of the main Indus River and its tributaries lie in India whereas the lower reaches are in Pakistan.

When the squad reaches India, he is temporarily cured when he meets a woman — a married hotelier who had once studied in Baltimore, Maryland — but he is quickly sick again when the squad moves on.

He is Chairman of Pratham India, which is the largest non-governmental organization in the education sector, and reaches out to 33 million children through its “ Read India ” campaign.