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Ziro Valley at 1,525 Metres Grows Rice and Carp in the Same Terraced Fields, and UNESCO Has Held the Apatani Landscape on India's Tentative List Since 15 April 2014

Ancient & Medieval India

India's 13 Chausath Yogini Temple Sites, Roofless Stone Shrines of Carved Goddesses Dated to the 9th to 12th Centuries, Are on UNESCO's Tentative List

Ancient & Medieval India

The Gupta-Era Vishnu Temple at Deogarh, Dated to the Early Sixth Century CE, Stands on a Five-Shrine Platform 55.5 Feet Square and Carries a Relief of Vishnu Asleep on the Serpent Ananta

Ancient & Medieval India

Masons at Dhamnar in Madhya Pradesh Cut 51 Caves Into a Laterite Hill and Dug a 30-Foot Pit to Leave a Whole Temple Standing in the Same Rock, and India Has Put the Site on UNESCO's Tentative List

Ancient & Medieval India

Ekamra Kshetra in Bhubaneswar Keeps Temples From the 7th to the 15th Century, Led by the Lingaraja, and Has Been on India's UNESCO Tentative List Since 2014

Gwalior Fort's Chaturbhuj Temple Carries an 876 CE Inscription With the Zero Sign Cut in Stone, and the Same Hill Holds Man Singh Tomar's Tiled Palace and Jain Figures Up to 57 Feet Tall

Ancient & Medieval India

Hire Benkal in Koppal Has Port-Holed Dolmens Across About 20 Hectares of a Granite Hill, and India Put the Iron Age Burial Ground on UNESCO's Tentative List in 2021

The Nongriat Double Decker Root Bridge in Meghalaya, Grown by Khasi Villagers Over an Estimated 200 Years, Is Reached on a 3 km Trail of About 3,500 Stone Steps From Tyrna

Science & Space

Burhanpur's Khooni Bhandara, an Underground Water System Built From 1615 on Persian Qanat Lines, Still Moves Groundwater Into the City by Gravity Alone

Ancient & Medieval India

Volunteer Explorers Led by Sudhir Risbud Found More Than 40 New Prehistoric Carving Sites on the Konkan's Laterite Plateaus, and UNESCO's Tentative List Now Names Nine Sites, From Barsu's 62 Geoglyphs to Kasheli's Elephant

Lepakshi's Veerabhadra Temple Has Vijayanagara Ceiling Paintings in Panels Almost 23 Metres Long, a 27-Foot Granite Nandi and Inscribed Gifts Dated 1531 to 1539

Padmanabhapuram Palace, on India's UNESCO Tentative List Since 2014, Is a 6.5-Acre Timber Complex Built to the Rules of Taccusastra, With a Working Clock Tower and Murals on the Top Floor of the Uppirikka Malika

Ancient & Medieval India

Rang Ghar, Talatal Ghar and Three Great Tanks Make Rangpur the Ahom Kings' Planned Capital in Sivasagar, Which India Placed on UNESCO's Tentative List in 2026

Srirangam's Ranganathaswamy Temple Covers 156 Acres Inside Seven Enclosures, With 21 Gopurams, a Town in Its Outer Rings and More Than 640 Published Inscriptions

Ancient & Medieval India

Unakoti in Tripura Holds Colossal Rock-Cut Shiva, Durga and Ganesha Reliefs, Reported by the Archaeological Survey in 1921 and Placed on UNESCO's Tentative List in 2022

Economy & Infrastructure

Vadnagar in Gujarat Has Been Settled for About 2,700 Years, and Excavations Since 2006 Found a Shell Industry, Indo-Greek Coin Moulds and a Buddhist Monastery Inside the Town Wall

Ancient & Medieval India

Nine Rock-Cut Buddhist Caves at Bagh in Dhar District Hold Painted Courts, Dancers and a Royal Cavalcade That Sir John Marshall Judged Close to Ajanta, and Joined India's UNESCO Tentative List on 29 September 2026

Ancient & Medieval India

Bateshwar in the Chambal Valley Has More Than 200 Small Sandstone Shrines Laid Without Mortar, and the ASI Has Reassembled More Than 60 of Them From Their Own Fallen Stones

Ancient & Medieval India

Ratnagiri in Odisha Has Two Excavated Monasteries and Hundreds of Votive Stupas, Three Buddha Heads Found Since December 2024 and a Place on India's UNESCO Tentative List

Ancient & Medieval India

Udayagiri Near Vidisha Holds Twenty Gupta-Era Caves, a Colossal Varaha Relief and a Cave Inscription of Gupta Year 82, About 401 CE, and It Joined India's UNESCO Tentative List on 29 September 2026

Sirpur's Brick Temples, the Baratang Mud Volcanoes and the Barren Island and Narcondam Volcanoes Joined India's UNESCO Tentative List, Which Now Shows 81 Entries

The Modhera Sun Temple in Gujarat Is Dated to About 1026 to 1027 CE, Faces East Over a Stepped Surya Kund of 176 by 120 Feet and Has Been on India's UNESCO Tentative List Since 2022

Ancient & Medieval India

Orchha Was the Bundela Capital From 1531 to 1783, and Its Palaces, Temples and Riverside Cenotaphs Now Have a UNESCO Nomination Dossier Aimed at 2027 to 2028