AllahabadAllahabad has a long and illustrious history dating back some 3000 years. As the meeting point for three holy rivers, the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the invisible Saraswati, it has always been important to Hindus. Considered by the Mughals to be valuable as well, Emperor Akbar constructed a fort here in the 16th century which unfortunately is dilapidated today and overgrown with trees and weeds.

Deemed important by later Mughals also, Allahabad’s Khusrau Bagh is the garden where siblings of the great Shah Jehan are buried, under onion domed structures of red sandstone.

Allahabad became a centre of the freedom movement during the 20th century as the residence of the illustrious Nehru family is here. Anand Bhavan regularly received guests such as Mahatma Gandhi and its walls have been silent witness to many a political debate. Converted into a museum now, Anand Bhavan offers an excellent introduction to the history of those turbulent days.

The Allahabad Museum has room after room of carefully documented artifacts - prehistoric tools and paintings, 5th century statuettes, letters and photographs from the Indian struggle for freedom, and 20th century art.