Uttar Pradesh

bus

Following a Haryana Roadways bus on the way to Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. Meerut is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Varanasi, is a city on the banks of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of the state capital, Lucknow. It is holiest of the seven sacred cities (Sapta Puri) in Hinduism and Jainism.

monsoon · farmland

Rice farming in the Uttar Pradesh is most vulnerable and risk prone due to complex ecological situations marked by frequent flood or drought or both. The area production & productivity during last 10 years is given in table-1.

village

Outdoor laundry: An idyllic village scene from Uttar Pradesh. India. Women and children are washing clothes by the village stream, cows are grazing in the back-drop and everything appears peaceful, happy and serene.

music

Ustad Jaffar Hussain Khan of Badaun, Uttar Pradesh. He learned music from his uncle Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan at the age of four and then he became a student of Mehdi Hassan of Agra. Ustad Jaffar Hussain Khan on Qawwali.

livestock

Used as a village fuel for cooking, a woman makes cow dung patties in Uttar Pradesh, India.

forest · river

National Chambal Sanctuary, also called the National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary, is a 5,400 km2 (2,100 sq mi) tri-state protected area in northern India for the critically endangered gharial (small crocodiles), the red-crowned roof…

river · forest

Chambal river is the most pollution free river of India National Chambal Sanctuary, also called the National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary, is a 5,400 km2 (2,100 sq mi) tri-state protected area in northern India for the critically enda…

highway

Evening drive from Thakurdwara to Muradabad in Uttar Pradesh. Driving along with the unruly traffic of Uttar Pradesh is daring task one needs to be very careful while driving in UP.

Cellular telephone site where antennae and electronic communications equipment are placed in Muradabad district. Moradabad district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Moradabad town is the district headquarters.

farmland

Agriculture is the leading occupation in Uttar Pradesh. Wheat is the state's principal food crop and sugarcane is the main commercial crop. About 70% of India's sugar comes from Uttar Pradesh.

river

Boating on the banks of holy river Ganges - Varanasi... Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras or Kashi is an Indian city on the banks of the Ganges (Ganga) in Uttar Pradesh, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of the state capital, Luckn…

festival

People celebrate Lathmar Holi in Barsana, Uttar Pradesh. The festival has many purposes; most prominently, it celebrates the beginning of Spring.

Senior police officer addresses media on a case of a journalist in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. The incident took place after the policemen entered into an argument with a journalist when he was covering the derailment of a goods train in Shamli.…

festival · dance

Crowd dance as palanquin of Lord Krishna is taken out during a procession in the streets of Gokul, Uttar Pradesh. A procession is taken out before the Holi festival celebration. The Festival of Colors. The Festival of Love.

festival · dance

Indian women dance as they celebrate the festival of colours in Gokul village, Uttar Pradesh, India. The Festival of Colors. The Festival of Love. The celebration of Spring, new beginnings, and new relationships.

Muzaffarnagar is a city and a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city was established in Mughal period by a Sayyid Jagirdar, Munawar Lashkar Ali, and so named in honour of his father, Muzaffar Ali Khan.

Varanasi also Benares, Banaras or Kashi, is a city on the banks of the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of the state capital, Lucknow.

crafts · bazaar

Embroidery of Uttar Pradesh carries the affluence of cultural legacy that are displayed in each form of arts and crafts of this state.

politics

Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on October 2, 1901, at Mughalsarai, a small railway town seven miles from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. His father was a school teacher who died when Lal Bahadur Shastri was only a year and half old.

highway · bus

More UP traffic - driving through the cow belt of Uttar Pradesh, with vendors selling cut coconut slices, mammoth balloons and a view of the odd man spitting out of a bus, while fidgety kids play at the bus window behind their mother.

village · farmland

The quintessential rural view of India - women peacefully do the household laundry by a stream. Uttar Pradesh, abbreviated U.P., is a state located in northern India.

farmland

Agriculture is the leading occupation in Uttar Pradesh. Wheat is the state's principal food crop and sugarcane is the main commercial crop. About 70% of India's sugar comes from Uttar Pradesh.