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INDIAN ArchitectureNotes 187 INDIAN Culture and Heritage Secondary CourseMODULE - VPainting,Performing Artsand Architecture13 INDIAN ARCHITECTUREAt times it becomes very important to be reminded that we are that civilizationwhich has spanned atleast 4,500 years and which has left its impact onnearly everything in our lives and society. Imagine UNESCO has listed 830 WorldHeritage Sites, out of which 26 are in India. This is less than six other countries. Is this nota tangible proof of the creative genius and industry of this ancient land, people, and also ofthe gifts bestowed on it by nature. Be it the Bhimbetka s pre historic rock art at one end orthe innumerable palaces, mosques, temples, gurudwaras, churches or tombs and sprawlingcities and solemn through the cities of Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Mumbai and Calcutta etc. you find manybeautiful buildings. Some are monuments, palaces, temples, churches, mosques andmemorials. Many of them had their foundation before Christ and many after the coming ofChrist.
this calamity, the Indus Valley people built fresh settlements on the same sites. Thus, layers upon layers of settlements and buildings were found during the excavations. The decline and final destruction of the Indus alley Civilization, sometime around the second millenniumV BC remains a mystery to this day.
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