Uttar Pradesh

river

The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India, and forms part of the greater Gangetic drainage system.

music

CISF band sings patriotic songs during 47th CISF Raising Day celebration in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.

farmland

Faces of India from the heart-land of Uttar Pradesh. Simple hard-working Indians - that's what our country is all about! See the lovely furrows of wisdom, hard work and agrarian enterprise, in this man's weathered face...

livestock · village

Rural vignettes from Uttar Pradesh, India's rural heartland: A woman, her child and her cow!

temple · festival

Good stock footage of women of Barsana beating men of Nandgaon with sticks during Lathmaar Holi in Uttar Pradesh, India. Lath mar Holi is a local celebration of the Hindu festival of Holi.

Panoramic view of Varanasi City. 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, Lucknow.

river · industry

Illegal sand mining taking place with the use of excavators on the river-bed of the Ganga or Ganges river, at Garhmukteshwar, Uttar Pradesh, India.

temple

Viewer discretion advised due to graphic content. While a police officer is being lifted up by his team, many protestors are being thrashed and beaten by the UP police in Uttar Pradesh.

highway

Night driving on unruly roads of Uttar Pradesh in India. Sharing roads with trucks is a common sight when one drives on Uttar Pradesh's road. Maintaining smooth traffic in the city is a challenge for Uttar Pradesh.

flowers · industry

A lone Lotus flower in bloom at a pond in Uttar Pradesh in India. Nelumbo nucifera, known by numerous common names including Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, or simply lotus, is one of two species of aquatic plant in the family Ne…

festival · temple

Men and women dress up and ready for the Lathmaar Holi festival celebration in Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh. Nandgaon celebrates Holi in most traditional way.

Jaggery is weighed and packed in boxes for dispatch in one of the sugarcane factories in Uttar Pradesh. The jaggery is measured and sealed. Jaggery is a concentrate of cane sugar which is eaten in India in large amounts.

farmland · industry

Mangoes on the farms are hand-plucked using a bamboo sticks by farm workers. The Sticks looks very simple, but is excellent at getting the job done. Dussheri is a variety of mango grown in different parts of North India.

ceremony · river

Pyre burns at a cremation ground on the banks of river Ganga of Haridwar, Uttar Pradesh. Cremation is the use of high-temperature burning, vaporization, and oxidation to reduce dead animal bodies, including human ones, to basic chemical com…

livestock

Come to Uttar Pradesh and learn from us how you can bathe your pet buffalo in order to keep it clean and smell-free. It can even become house-trained and will follow you around the house, without creating a mess indoors!

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.

river

The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India, and forms part of the greater Gangetic drainage system.

festival

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.

festival · village

People in large number gather for the Lathmaar Holi festival celebration. Barsana a village in Uttar Pradesh, celebrates Holi in most traditional way.

forest

The Pygmy Hog is the smallest and rarest wild suid in the world. The species was historically known from only a few locations in northern West Bengal and north-western Assam in India, though it is now believed likely to have occurred in an…

boats · river

One of the most scenic view every visitor wants to experience while sailing over Ganges river are the ghats of Varanasi, boats, temples, tourist enjoying boat ride and a lady praying early in the morning.

forest · hills

Forest in Uttar Pradesh : Forests constitute about 12.8% of the total geographical area of Uttar Pradesh. The Himalayan region and the terai and bhabhar area in the Gangetic plain have most of the forests.

A famous delicacy of the Uttar Pradesh state of India this is called as Halwa Paratha. Its not just fun to look at when its being made, its equally tasty when you eat it hot.