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Pichavaram 594 Puducherry (cont.) Rail travel (cont.)
Pietra dura 177, 178, 181 restaurants 718 Railway map of India see back
Pilar 506 street-by-street 590–91 endpaper
Pilar Seminary 506 Pulakeshin II 47, 49 special trains 753
Pillory (Old Goa) 505 The Pundits 190 suburban trains and Metro systems
Pin Valley 134 Pune 14, 474 758–9
trek 119 hotels 701 Rainfall 42–3, 734
Pin Valley National Park 131, 134 restaurants 715 Rainforest, tropical 625
Pindari Glacier 193, 195 Punjab Raisina Hill (Delhi) 78
Pipiting 155 food 71 Raj Bhavan (Chennai) 577
Pipli 313 see also Haryana & Punjab Raj Bhavan (Kolkata) 274
Pippala Watchtower (Rajgir) 224 Puppets Raj Nivas (Puducherry) 591
Pir Panjal Range 159 Karnataka 539 Rajabai Clock Tower (Mumbai) 452
Pius XII, Pope 502 shows 725 Rajagopalachari, C 571, 572, 577
Planters’ Club (Darjeeling) 301 Purana Qila (Delhi) 10, 75, 83, 95 Rajaji Hall (Chennai) 571
Plassey, Battle of 56, 297 Puri 265, 316 Rajaji National Park 190
Pochampalli 672 festivals 265, 313, 318–19 Rajamalla IV 526
Poet-saints, Tamil 49, 52, 53 hotels 698 Rajamundry 676
Point Calimere 595 restaurants 712 Rajaraja Chola I 50, 51, 596, 600, 602
Police 740 Pushkar 11, 381 Rajaraja Chola II 597
Politics 61 hotels 699 Rajasthan 348–9, 354–411
film stars and 555, 571 restaurants 713 festivals 375
Pollilur, Battle of 6–7, 521 street-by-street 378–9 food 352–3
Polo 727, 731 Pushkar Fair 40, 346, 348, 375, 379 hotels 699
Polo, Marco 52, 577, 621, 672 Pushkar Lake 378 landscape and wildlife 22
Ponda 506–7 Puttaparthi 685 restaurants 712–13
Pongal 41, 593 Pykara 608 see also Western India
Ponmudi 633 Rajendra Chola I 50, 51, 596
Poompuhar 595 Q Rajendra Mullick, Raja 284
Pooram Festival 655 Qalandar Shah 104 Rajendra Pol (City Palace, Jaipur) 360
Porbandar 430–31 Qalandar Shah’s Urs (Panipat) 105 Rajghat (Delhi) 91
Porcupine Point (Matheran) 476 Qila Rai Pithora (Delhi) 95, 96 Rajgir 224
Port Blair 622–3 Qila Shikhan (Dalautabad) 479 hotels 696
festivals 41 Queen Mary’s College (Chennai) 573 restaurants 709
hotels 703 Queen Mary’s Library (Agra) 175 Rajiv Chowk see Connaught Place
restaurants 718 Quepem Rajkot 431
Portuguese festivals 497 Rajkumar College (Rajkot) 431
explorers & traders 53, 56 restaurants 716 Rajnikant 571
Goa 441, 489 Querim Beach 495, 497 Rajpath (Delhi) 10, 78, 79
Gujarat 425, 427 Quit India movement 60 Rajputs 48, 54, 56, 348
Kerala 647, 657 Qusdia Begum 244 Rajya Angan Chowk (City Palace,
Mumbai 447 Qutb Complex (Delhi) 72, 98 Udaipur) 404
Postal services 746, 747 Qutb Minar (Delhi) 11, 52, 97, 98 Raksha Bandhan 40
Praça Jorge Barreto (Margao) 508 Qutb Sahib 96 Ram Das, Guru 108
Prakasam Barrage (Vijayawada) 678 Qutb Shahi dynasty 665, 670, 671 Rama 31, 131, 164, 203, 207, 463
Prasanthi Nilayam (Puttaparthi) 685 Qutbuddin Aibak 52, 95, 96, 98 Rama Varma, Raja 655
Pratap, Maharana 399 Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar 96 Ramachandran, MG 571, 572
Pratap Singh, Sawai 357 Ramakrishna Mission (Belur Math)
Pratap Singh of Alwar 374 R 290
Pratithara dynasty 48, 237 Rabari nomads 347, 434–5 Ramakrishna Mission Beach
Prehistory 45 Rabdentse 305 (Visakhapatnam) 674
Presidency College (Chennai) 572 Rabies 743 Ramakrishna Paramhansa 290
Presidency College (Kolkata) 276 Rabindra Bharati University (Kolkata) 284 Ramana Maharishi, Sri 589
Prices Rabindra Bhavan (Delhi) 79 Ramanathapuram 617
air fares 748 Race Course (Kolkata) 277 Ramanuja 49, 526
bus and coach fares 756–7 Rachol 508 Ramappa Cheruvu (Palampet) 673
hotels 690 Rachol Seminary 508 Ramatirtham 675
rail fares 752–3 Radha and Madhava (Varma) 423 Ramayana 30, 31, 40, 47, 131
restaurants 705 Radio 747 Rameshvaram 617
taxis and auto-rickshaws 758 Ragas 32 Ramganga river 196, 197
Prinsep, James 91 Raghoji I 486 Ramgarh (near Jaipur) 367
Pritam Niwas Chowk (City Palace, Rahabi, Ezekiel 647 Ramgarh (near Nainital) 194
Jaipur) 360 Rail travel 752–3 Ramgarh (Shekhawati) 376
Prithvi International Theatre Festival Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Mumbai) Ramilila 207
(Mumbai) 41 449, 458–9 Ramkund (Nasik) 478
Prithvi Theatre (Mumbai) 464 Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) Ramkunda 395
Prithviraj Chauhan 48, 49, 52, 298, 753 Ramnavami 39
95 Egmore Railway Station (Chennai) Rampur (Himachal Pradesh) 120
Public holidays 39, 736 568 festivals 117
Public transport 758–9 Konkan Railway 441 Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) 198
Puducherry 17, 590–93 Nilgiri Blue Mountain Train 608, 609, Ramtek 486
hotels 703 753 Ranakpur 398–9, 400–401
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