Cellular Jail

The Cellular Jail, also known as Kālā Pānī ('Black Water'), was a colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. The prison was used by the British government for the purpose of exiling political prisoners to the remote archipelago. Many notable activists, including Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Batukeshwar Dutt, Hare Krishna Konar, Shiv Verma, Yogendra Shukla, and Sudhanshu Dasgupta were imprisoned here during the struggle for India's independence. Today, the…

North Goa is one of the two districts that make up the state of Goa in India. The district has an area of 1736 km², and is bounded by Kolhapur district and Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgaum district of Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west. Cheap Goa Tour Package

Portuguese in Goa…

Port Blair is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal. It is also the local administrative sub-division of the islands, the headquarters for the district of South Andaman and is the territory's only notified town.

Port Blair serves as the entry point for visiting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Port Blair is connected with mainland India by both air and sea. It is a 2-to-3-hour flight from mainland India to Port Blair's…

North Goa is one of the two districts that make up the state of Goa in India. The district has an area of 1736 km², and is bounded by Kolhapur district and Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgaum district of Karnataka to the east, by South Goa district to the south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west.

Portuguese in Goa (1510-1961)

Advent of Portuguese (1498)

Lured by the thrill of discovery and goaded by the prospect of seeking Christians and…

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the India. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompasses a larger area that includes the Indian-territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Pakistani-occupide territories of Pakistan-Occupide-Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the Chinese-Occupide-territories (During India-China war 1962) of Aksai Chin and the…

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the India. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompasses a larger area that includes the Indian-territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Pakistani-occupide territories of Pakistan-Occupide-Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the Chinese-Occupide-territories (During India-China war 1962) of Aksai Chin and the…