Across the fertile plains of western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, watered by the sacred Ganges, live the Bhojpuri people, one of the largest ethnolinguistic communities of the Indian subcontinent.

In the eastern Himalaya, in the small state of Sikkim beneath the sacred snows of Kangchenjunga, live the Bhutia, a Buddhist people descended from Tibetan settlers who crossed the mountains

In the fertile plains along the Brahmaputra in Assam live the Bodo people, who call themselves Boro, counted among the earliest inhabitants of the great river valley of northeastern India.

In the rugged Nallamala hills of the eastern Deccan, in the forests around the sacred hill of Srisailam, live the Chenchu, one of the classic hunter-gatherer peoples of India. Foragers

In the heart of central India, where the fertile rice plains of the Mahanadi meet the deep forests of Bastar, live the Chhattisgarhi people, the population of one of India’s

In the heart of the famous Pink City of Jaipur, surrounded by the bustle of one of India’s most vibrant urban centers, stands the City Palace, a vast complex of

Rising in tiers of pale granite and marble above the shining waters of Lake Pichola, the City Palace of Udaipur is one of the most romantic sights in all of

In the Duggar country of hills and plains, where the Punjab rises toward the high Himalaya, live the Dogra people of Jammu. Speakers of the Dogri language and famed across

In the western Himalaya of Uttarakhand, amid soaring peaks and the sacred sources of the Ganges and Yamuna, live the Garhwali people, a hill community whose homeland is among the

In the forested western hills of Meghalaya, where the plateau falls toward the plains of Assam and Bangladesh, live the Garo people, who call themselves A·chik, “the hill people.” A