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Presently, we were joined by a group of young boys and girls with flowers, as though they were the chorus for our guide’s epic.
we met a man on the pilgrimage to the temple. He had walked a long way but had a big smile and carried a ceremonial flag.
We accompanied a Hindu guide on his pilgrimage to the Ganesh Temple in the Fort on the hills of Ranthambhore. Religious beliefs and selective bits of history combined to produce a folkloric epic in this area of Rajasthan now better known as a tiger preserve. Our guide played out the drama on an appropriate stage. As soon as we went through the gate of Ranthambhore National Park...
“This was done by the army of Mahmoud Ghaznavi in the 13th century,” our tour guide said. “Notice that the Muslims only just defaced the sculpture of Ganesh.
The galleries also had old sculptures of ordinary men and women which had been left untouched; the defacing was done only to idols.
The baori which still had water had been rebuilt and turned into a summer pleasure palace, a cool retreat, by the Rajas of Jaipur in the 17th century. They added a pavilion to its upper level.
In the village co-operative they were measuring the milk by “lecto-meter” to make sure it was not diluted.
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