Centre proposes Golconda fort as heritage site

Centre proposes Golconda fort as heritage site 

Centre proposes Golconda fort as heritage site 

HYDERABAD: Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni has said that 16 sites and monuments in the country have been proposed for world heritage sites' recognition. 

Addressing media persons after inaugurating Balayogi Paryataka Bhavan here on Friday, she said that while other countries had 40 to 50 world heritage sites, India was lagging behind in this respect despite its rich architectural and natural heritage monuments and sites. "We have represented to World Heritage Committee Chairman to relax the rules in case of India so that two to three sites/monuments will get world heritage site status per year," she said. 

Some of the monuments proposed in the list were Golconda fort from Hyderabad, Mijoli islands of Assam, she said.

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Chairman BC commission with musham damodhar rao

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MUGHAL EMPIRE FLAG OF HYDERABAD

MUGHAL EMPIRE FLAG OF HYDERABAD
Mughal Empire was an empire extending over large parts of the Indian subcontinent and ruled by a dynasty of Chagatai-Turkic originIn the early 16th century, northern India, being then under mainly Muslim rulers, fell to the superior mobility and firepower of the Mughals.The resulting Mughal Empire did not stamp out the local societies it came to rule, but rather balanced and pacified them through new administrative practices and diverse and inclusive ruling elites,leading to more systematic, centralised, and uniform rule.Eschewing tribal bonds and Islamic identity, especially under Akbar, the Mughals united their far-flung realms through loyalty, expressed through a Persianised culture, to an emperor who had near-divine status, The Mughal state's economic policies, deriving most revenues from agriculture

and mandating that taxes be paid in the well-regulated silver currency caused peasants and artisans to enter larger markets