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Nearly a thousand years ago the work stopped mid-construction. The ramp used to haul stones to the roof still lies beside a Shivalinga nearly 7.5 feet tall.
On the same hilltop as a temple still in worship, a small museum keeps sculptures, coins and artefacts from across Madhya Pradesh.
When her husband died in 1819, Qudsia Begum took the throne of Bhopal and began a century of women rulers. This lakeside palace is what she built.
Sikandar Begum, one of four women who ruled Bhopal in succession, built this pink-and-white mosque as a smaller echo of Delhi's Jama Masjid.
Built as a wedding gift for Sikandar Jehan Begum, one of Bhopal's four women rulers in succession, with Gothic arches borrowed from Europe.
Begun in the 1870s under Begum Shah Jahan of Bhopal, it was not completed until the 1980s, and it is now among the largest mosques in the world.
One of India's first zoos without cages, where animals roam natural enclosures separated from visitors by moats and natural barriers.