The hotel, a series of rambling structures on one of the city's four prominent hillsides, was built in 1891 to house a British magnate who ran a gl

A seaside resort with 88 rooms.

The hotel itself is a collection of simple stucco structures, 13 rooms in a former men's club set on the outskirts of the village and owned by a se

Opened in 1887 for the Queen Empress's jubilee; particularly fine goods are in the South Indian Women's Work Room.

A British colonial church built in 1821, modeled on London's Church of St.-Martin's-in-the-Fields

Take a short walk through the temple city's seven concentric perimeter walls, each traditionally inhabited by a separate caste, and come away with

This Madurai temple was built in the 16th-century. There are those who refer to Madurai as a power center, claiming that the earth around the old t

Near Chennai, this village of reconstructed houses typical of southern India, hosts Muslim silk-mat weavers, who practice and sell their craft.