13,750 cities. 4,312 ASI-protected heritage monuments. 17 named tourism circuits. 13,375 Hindi narrative sections across 1,672 cities. State-level admin hierarchy. Built grain-by-grain over 18 months, refreshed weekly. If you're building for the Indian travel market, this is the floor.
Each circuit comes from the government tourism authority that named it — Buddhist Circuit (Bihar / UP / Nepal), Char Dham (Uttarakhand), Coastal Karnataka, the Golden Triangle. Pull the slug, get back members + duration + best season in one call.
Nine pilgrimage sites following the major events of the Buddha's life. The single largest religious-tourism route in South Asia.
The default first-time-India route. Three cities, three architectural eras, plenty of UNESCO grounding.
The four sacred Hindu pilgrimage sites of Uttarakhand. Open May–November; high-altitude logistics matter.
Western Ghats meets Arabian Sea. Hampi-grade heritage paired with Gokarna beach stops.
Thar Desert oasis cities. Camel safaris + forts + saffron-coloured palace stays.
Houseboat-and-canal route through the Vembanad lake system. Pair with Munnar for tea-country contrast.
Showing 6 of 17 circuits · pull any circuit slug via get_circuit('buddhist-circuit')
Each state ships its own ISO-3166-2 subdivision code, district hierarchy, ASI list, and (where it exists) state-tourism page corpus. Numbers below are live, refreshed weekly by our automated coverage pipeline.
24 more states + UTs available · pull any via list_heritage_in_state('IN-MZ')
Direct ingestion from Archaeological Survey of India open data + geo-resolved against our city graph. The big-name UNESCO sites are here; so are the obscure 19th-century stepwells that don't appear in mainstream guides.
UNESCO World Heritage. Site of the Buddha's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. Member of the Buddhist Circuit; ~96km from Patna.
UNESCO. Capital of the Vijayanagara Empire (14th–16th c.). 1,600+ surviving monuments across 41km² of boulder-strewn landscape.
Iron-age engraved stone monoliths in Mizoram. Virtually absent from mainstream travel guides; surfaces in our heritage filter alongside more famous peers.
UNESCO. 11th-century inverted-temple stepwell with 500+ sculptures across 7 levels. Lost under Saraswati river silt for 700 years; excavated 1960s.
UNESCO. 10th–12th c. Chandela temples, intricately carved. Only ~25 of an original 85+ survive.
UNESCO. 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from 2nd c. BCE to ~480 CE. Fresco-painting tradition the Western art world spent a century catching up with.
6 of 4,312 · query any state via list_heritage_in_state('IN-MP')
Bihar, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan. On-prem deployment with weekly Parquet deltas; their data sovereignty + your circuit + heritage layer + Hindi narratives.
Talk to sales →India-bound travel companies need state-level admin hierarchy + ASI grounding to quote heritage trips without a researcher. Concierge + city-context APIs ship in an afternoon.
See pricing tiers →Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi chatbots. find_city resolves any-script names; 13,375 Hindi narrative rows across 1,672 cities ground responses in real travel facts.