Planning an independent trip to India? These are the sites you should visit first.
Up-to-date advice and tips from Lonely Planet readers on places to stay, changes since the last edition, warnings, and how not to climb on to an elephant. Highly recommended.
Excellent overview of the bigger towns with many well-illustrated pages devoted to forts, caves, gardens, trekking and similar themes.
Invaluable on stuffing rucksacks and selecting gear to deal with most eventualities.
The Fab and Funky Guide to Calcutta
Shockingly badly written guide to eating out and sleeping in Calcutta. The design is even worse than the prose.
Interesting not only for its hotel recommendations and descriptions of local beauty spots, but also as an insight into local culture. As well as the usual matrimonial notices, it devotes a whole section to corruption, explained thus by a local: "People of Karnataka are not of fighting nature. They will take any amount of crap."
There seems little doubt that TempleNet's claim to be the ultimate source of information on Indian temples is entirely justified.
Exhaustive list of Mumbai (Bombay) online organisations and businesses, from the Leprosy Project to Traffic in Mumbai and Gay Bombay.
One of the better regional tourist sites, promising dancing dolphins, car festivals, white tigers and waterfalls.
Indian World Wide Fund for Nature
Slow but worthwhile guide to conservation projects.
