Insight Guides South India (Travel Guide eBook)
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Insight Guides South India (Travel Guide eBook)

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Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Insight Guides South India (Travel Guide eBook)

About this book

South India is a land apart, at once the cradle of ancient Dravidian civilisations and a powerhouse of the new India, with the high-tech rubbing shoulders with ancient temples, all against a tropical and varied backdrop. Be inspired to visit by this major new edition of Insight Guide South India, a comprehensive full-colour guide to Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka.

Inside Insight Guide India: A thoroughly overhauled new edition by our South India expert author. Stunning photography brings this lush region and its people to life. Highlights of the region's top attractions, including Kerala's backwaters, the Gallic flavours of Puducherry and the unearthly landscape of Hampi. Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole region from the bustling high-tech cities of Bengaluru and Hyderabad to Gokarna's beaches and the Malabar Coast. Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

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Publisher
Insight
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781786715623
Understanding the Language
Introduction
With 18 official languages, hundreds of others and countless dialects, India can present a linguistic minefield. Luckily for the traveller, English is often understood and it is usually possible to get by. However, attempts to speak the local language are always appreciated. The language most widely spoken in the North is Hindi, while in the South Tamil has the highest profile (it is a source of considerable regional pride) and has recently been given official status as a classical language.
Of the other South Indian languages, Malayalam (a south Dravidian language spoken in Kerala) is closely related to Tamil, though with more influence of Sanskrit. The two central Dravidian languages, Telugu (spoken in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and Kannada (spoken in Karnataka) are also both closely related and, again, display a greater influence of Sanskrit than is evident in Tamil. All the Dravidian languages, however, show distinct similarities and many basic words are common or...

Table of contents

  1. South India’s Top 10 Attractions
  2. Editor’s Choice
  3. Introduction: The Other India
  4. Geography
  5. Wildlife
  6. Decisive Dates
  7. Prehistory to Independence
  8. South India Since 1947
  9. Society and Culture
  10. Insight: Festivals
  11. Food
  12. Art and Architecture
  13. Crafts
  14. Music and Dance
  15. Cinema
  16. Introduction: Places
  17. Introduction: Tamil Nadu
  18. Chennai
  19. The Coromandel Coast
  20. The Kaveri Delta
  21. Madurai and the South
  22. The Hill Stations
  23. Puducherry
  24. Introduction: Kerala
  25. Thiruvananthapuram
  26. The Backwaters and Kochi
  27. Insight: Cruising Kerala’s Backwaters
  28. The Western Ghats
  29. Northern Kerala
  30. The Lakshadweep Islands
  31. Introduction: Karnataka
  32. Bengaluru
  33. Mysuru and the South
  34. Hampi
  35. The Northern Deccan
  36. Introduction: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
  37. Hyderabad
  38. The Deltas and Telangana
  39. Southern Andhra
  40. Transport
  41. A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
  42. Understanding the Language
  43. Further Reading