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This ClipArt gallery offers 73 illustrations of India, including architecture, religion, cities, and scenes of everyday life.

A stupa (from Sanskrit and Pāli: literally meaning "heap") is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, once thought to be places of Buddhist worship, typically the remains of a Buddha or saint.

Stupa or Tope

A stupa (from Sanskrit and Pāli: literally meaning "heap") is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist…

The Sumaree Temple in Benares, India is an example of Sanskrit architecture.

Sumaree Temple

The Sumaree Temple in Benares, India is an example of Sanskrit architecture.

"The Taj Mahal, or Mehal, ('Gem of Buildings'), is a famous mausoleum, erected at Agra, India, by Shah Jehan for his favorite wife. It is 186 feet square with the corners cut off, and consists of two tiers of arches, with a single-arched porch in the middle of each side, the whole surmounted by a dome 58 feet in diameter and about 210 feet in height, flanked by four octagonal kiosks. The interior is divided into four domed chambers in the corners, and a large central arcaded octagon, all connecting by corridors. The central octagon contains two cenotaphs surrounded by a very noticeable openwork marble rail. The only light admitted enters through the delicately pierced marble screens of the windows. The decoration is especially noticeable for the stone mosaics of flower themes and arabesques, much of them in agate, jasper, and bloodstone. The entire structure stands on a white marble platform 18 feet high and 313 feet square, with tapering cylindrical minarets 133 feet high at the corners."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Taj Mahal

"The Taj Mahal, or Mehal, ('Gem of Buildings'), is a famous mausoleum, erected at Agra, India, by Shah…

The famous Taj Mahal in India.

Taj Mahal

The famous Taj Mahal in India.

"This magnificent monument was erected by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan (1625-1658), for a favorite wife who died in 1631."—Myers, 1905

Taj Mahal

"This magnificent monument was erected by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan (1625-1658), for a favorite wife…

The Taj Mahal, an Indian tomb

Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal, an Indian tomb

"The great pagoda at Tanjore is by far the grandest temple in India, resting on a base 83 feet suare, rises in fourteen stories to a height of nearly 200 feet." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893

Temple, Tanjore

"The great pagoda at Tanjore is by far the grandest temple in India, resting on a base 83 feet suare,…

All these buildings are of a pyramidal shape, with vertical stages, which are separated by curved roofs and terminate above in the from of a cupola. Rows of small cupolas stand out from the roofs of the stages. The walls of these stages are covered in a bewildering way with pilasters and niches, with intricately cut cornices, with varied intersecting mouldings, and with manifold and fantastic embellishments and carvings. Here is the entrance gate of the temple at Chillimbaram.

Temple of Chillimbaram Entrance Elevation

All these buildings are of a pyramidal shape, with vertical stages, which are separated by curved roofs…

"Coin struck in Tibet, from specimen in India Library; inscribed "27th year (of cycle=1772 A.D.) from the princely residence of Golden"." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910

Tibet Coin

"Coin struck in Tibet, from specimen in India Library; inscribed "27th year (of cycle=1772 A.D.) from…

"Tibeto-Chinese coinage ("Kieniang, 58th year," i.e. 1793 A.D.)" —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910

Tibet Coin

"Tibeto-Chinese coinage ("Kieniang, 58th year," i.e. 1793 A.D.)" —The Encyclopedia Britannica,…

An aeriel view of the temple at Tiravalur, which measures 945 by 700 feet.

Temple, Tiravalur

An aeriel view of the temple at Tiravalur, which measures 945 by 700 feet.

The tomb of Sultan Humayun in Delhi, India is an example of Indo-Saracenic architecture.

Tomb of Sultan Humayun

The tomb of Sultan Humayun in Delhi, India is an example of Indo-Saracenic architecture.

"A tower, generally built about 25 feet high, on which the Parsees expose the bodies of their dead to be stripped of flesh by vultures. These towers are usually so arranged that the denuded bones fall through a grating into a pit, whence they are removed for burial." &mdash;Whitney, 1889 <p>These towers were built by the Zoroastrians, of which the Parsees are one group. This image shows a tower with some bones and carrion surrounding it and hills in the background.

Tower of Silence Built by the Parsees

"A tower, generally built about 25 feet high, on which the Parsees expose the bodies of their dead to…