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India has the sixth-most sites worldwide. The first sites to be listed were the Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Agra Fort, and Taj Mahal, all of which were inscribed in the 1983 session of the World Heritage Committee. The most recent sites listed were Santiniketan and the Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas, in 2023. [3]
This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription, selected during the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee. [1] [2] The first World Heritage Site in the list is the Galápagos Islands. [3] The 24th session in 2000 inscribed the most with 61 entries, while the 13th session in 1989 only ...
The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) was founded in 1984, in New Delhi, with the vision to create a membership organisation to stimulate and spearhead heritage awareness and conservation in India . Since 1984, INTACH has pioneered the conservation and protection of India's natural and cultural heritage and is today ...
The Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country. It was founded in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham during the British Raj who also became its first Director-General.
Taj Mahal. / 27.17500°N 78.04194°E / 27.17500; 78.04194. The Taj Mahal ( / ˌtɑːdʒ məˈhɑːl, ˌtɑːʒ -/; lit. 'Crown of the Palace') is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan ( r. 1628–1658) to ...
India was added to the list for the first time in 2008 (at that time total three examples were added). According to UNESCO, intangible cultural heritage includes holidays, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music and handicrafts were included in the list. Nowruz or Navroz is the only object in the list which is shared by twelve countries ...
The National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities ( NMMA) is an Indian government agency responsible for maintaining the cultural heritage database under the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India. It was launched in 2007 aimed at studying, researching and preserving the cultural heritage of India. The main goal of the agency is to make ...
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with some languages ...