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Varanasi (Hindi pronunciation: [ʋaːˈraːɳəsi], [a] [b] also Benares, Banaras Hindustani pronunciation: [bəˈnaːrəs] [c] [12] [13] [14] or Kashi [d] [15]) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Raja Chait Singh of Benares State The Maharaja's Fort and palace in Ramnagar Maharaja of Benares with his courtiers in the 1870s. Banaras State, earlier Benares Estate, [1] was an estate, or hereditary jagir, comprising the family domains of the Maharaja of Benares—under the Nawabs of Oudh, East India Company rule, and the British Raj—that from 1911 to 1948 was recognized as a princely state.
Narendra Modi has been elected thrice from this constituency to become the Prime Minister of India. His party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is the most successful in Varanasi, having won a total of 8 terms since the constituency was established in 1952.
India comprises 28 states and 8 union territories. All states and territories, including the three union territories of Jammu and Kashmir , the National Capital Territory of Delhi and Puducherry have elected legislatures and governments patterned on the Westminster system .
An enlargeable map of the cities of India. The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, India: . The seventh-largest country by area, India is located on the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.
Purvanchal (lit. ' Eastern region ') is a subregion of the larger Bhojpuri region. Gorakhpur and Varanasi are important cities in this region. The Lal Bahadur Shashtri International Airport in Varanasi is the largest international airport in this region.
S.No. State / Union Territory Government Official Opposition Other Opposition; 1: Andhra Pradesh: NDA. YSRCP: 2: Arunachal Pradesh: BJP: INDI Alliance: 3: Assam: BJP ...
Upon the release of Eck's 2013 India: A Sacred Geography, a reviewer noted that in this later book Eck gives examples and generalizes about ideas that Eck shared in the earlier Banaras book. [6] A 2014 of scholarly essays, Banâras Revisited: Scholarly Pilgrimages to the City of Light, took its name from the Eck book. [7]