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| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| "Dancing Girl" Bronze | Mohenjo-daro, c. 2500 BCE, 10.8 cm, lost-wax (cire-perdue) casting |
| Sarnath Lion Capital | c. 250 BCE, Ashoka, Chunar sandstone, India's national emblem since 1950 |
| Sanchi Stupa No. 1 | Original built by Ashoka (3rd century BCE); toranas added in Sunga period (2nd–1st century BCE); UNESCO 1989 |
| Ajanta Caves | 30 caves, 2nd century BCE–7th century CE, Maharashtra; UNESCO 1983 |
| Kalidasa's key works | Abhijnanasakuntalam (drama), Meghaduta (poem), Raghuvamsha (epic) — Gupta era |
| Aryabhatiya | 499 CE, Aryabhata — pi = 3.1416, Earth rotation, algebra |
| Brihadeeswara Temple | 1010 CE, Thanjavur, Rajaraja Chola I — 66m vimana, Dravida style apex |
| Kandariya Mahadeva | c. 1025 CE, Khajuraho, Chandela dynasty — 31m shikhara, Nagara style apex |
| Taj Mahal | 1631–1653, Shah Jahan, for Mumtaz Mahal, white Makrana marble; UNESCO 1983 |
| Ramcharitmanas | Tulsidas, 1574–77, 10,902 lines in Awadhi, 7 books (Sapta Kand) |
| Natyashastra | Bharata Muni, c. 200 BCE–200 CE, 6,000 verses — codifies 9 rasas, classical dance |
| Gitanjali Nobel Prize | Rabindranath Tagore, 1913, first Asian Nobel laureate in Literature |
| Vande Mataram | Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, in Anandamath (1882), national song since 1896 |
| Qutb Minar | 1193–1220 CE, Delhi, 72.5m, first Indo-Islamic masterpiece |
| Humayun's Tomb | 1572, Delhi, first garden tomb in India, precursor to Taj; UNESCO 1993 |