Q1) Case Brief: Ellora Time Pvt. Ltd.‚ a company based in Gujarat‚ India was the world’s largest manufacturer of clocks. Along with clocks‚ the company also manufactured calculators‚ telephones‚ timepieces and educational toys. Ajanta and Orpat were the two Ellora companies with a combined investment of Rs. 2 billion‚ situated in a place called Morbi‚ exported their products to over 60 countries. Both Ajanta and Orpat received awards by the GOI for superior export performance throughout the
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INTRO Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. Ajanta dates from 100 B.C. while Ellora is younger by some 600 years. The village of Ajanta is in the Sahyadri hills‚ about 99 kms. From Aurangabad; a few miles away in a mammoth horseshoe-formed rock‚ are 30 caves overlooking a gorge‚ `each forming a room in the hill and some with
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India has always intrigued and fascinated the tourist fraternity with its cultural and geographical richness‚ architectural marvels‚ exclusive heritage sites‚ majestic monuments‚ and exotic flora and fauna. The awe-inspiring country has zillions of unexplored travel places which offer an unforgettable experience to all types of tourists. Let’s have a glimpse on the most fabulous of them. Khajuraho A UNESCO world heritage site‚ Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh) is an archaeological marvel known
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MY INDIA India is my country and I am an Indian. It is the seventh largest country in the world and the second most populated country in the world. India is called by names Bharat and Hindustan. It is a peninsula‚ surrounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east‚ the Arabian Sea in the west and the Indian Ocean in the south. Tiger is the national animal of India and peacock the national bird. The lotus in all its uniqueness is India’s national flower. The mango is the national fruit‚ which is cultivated
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Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".[1] Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. After slowly recovering from the contraction resulting from the late-2000s recession‚ where tourism suffered a strong slowdown from the second half of 2008 through the
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Dravidian architecture Dravidian architecture was an architectural idiom that emerged in the Southern part of the Indian subcontinent or South India. It consists primarily of temples with pyramid shaped towers and are constructed of sandstone‚ soapstone or granite. Mentioned as one of three styles of temple building in the ancient book Vastu shastra‚ the majority of the existing structures are located in the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu‚ Karnataka‚ Kerala‚ and Andhra pradesh. Various kingdoms
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Agra Fort Amar Singh Gate‚ one of two entrances into Agra’s Red Fort Agra Fort (sometimes called the Red Fort)‚ was commissioned by the great Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1565‚ and is another of Agra’s World Heritage Sites. A stone tablet at the gate of the Fort states that it had been built before 1000 but was later renovated by Akbar. The red sandstone fort was converted into a palace during Shāh Jahān’s time‚ and reworked extensively with marble and pietra dura inlay. Notable buildings in the fort
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INTRODUCTION like a circle‚ a tour represents a journey that is a round trip‚ i.e.‚ the act of leaving and then returning to the original starting point‚ and therefore‚ one who takes such a journey can be called a tourist. Over the decades‚ tourism has experienced continued growth and deepening ?diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Tourism has become a thriving global industry with the power to shape developing countries in both positive and negative
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forts‚ temples and mosques.They built some of the most remarkable buildings in the world. Some of these buildings have vanished in the march of time but many like Taj Mahal‚ Lai Quila‚ Qutub Minar‚ Jama Masjid‚ Fatehpur Sikri‚ Caves of Ajanta and Ellora‚ Sarnath Temple have stood the test of time. The British have also played an important role in giving us some historical monuments. Indian History is full of the rise and fall or many kingdoms and empires. Monuments‚ built by the kings and the emperors
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modeled on the Buddhist viharas or monasteries and chaitya halls with several cells arranged around a courtyard.[4] Art historian Percy Brown‚ in fact‚ traces the possible roots of the Pallava Mandapa to the similar rock-cut caves of Ajanta Caves and Ellora Caves. Referring to Narasimhavarman’s victory in AD 642 over the Chalukyan king Pulakesin II‚ Brown says the Pallava king may
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