Rising in tiers of honey-colored sandstone and white marble upon a forested hill above the still waters of the Maota Lake, in the desert state of Rajasthan in northern India,

Rise early in Jaipur and drive a few kilometers north into the Aravalli hills, and you come upon one of the great sights of India. Above a still lake, on

Spread across the summit of a great hill above the plains of southern Rajasthan, covering an area so vast that a whole city once flourished within its walls, Chittorgarh is

In the old city of Hyderabad, Chowmahalla was the official seat of the Nizams, its durbar hall ablaze with Belgian chandeliers, where new rulers were enthroned.

The Cooch Behar Palace in northern West Bengal is a grand European-style mansion crowned with a soaring dome, built by a reforming maharaja of the Koch dynasty. Explore its architecture, history and frontier setting.

Along a basalt cliff in western India stretches one of the most astonishing achievements of human labour and faith: the Ellora caves. Cut into the living rock over several centuries,

On a hill above Hyderabad, Falaknuma Palace holds the world’s longest dining table and the memory of the Nizams, among the richest rulers the world has ever known.

Rising from a great granite hill on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad, in the Deccan plateau of southern India, the mighty ruined fortress of Golconda is one of

Rising from an isolated hill of sandstone that towers above the city that shares its name, in the heart of central India, Gwalior Fort is one of the most magnificent

In an extraordinary landscape of giant granite boulders in southern India lie the ruins of Hampi, the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, once one of the largest and richest cities