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__The Taj Mahal__
 * The Mugal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
 * The white marble building with its onion-shaped domes and thin towers is one of the finest examples of Islamic archietecture in the world.

I__ndia and the Arts__
 * Mahabbarat is an epic poem, which means that it tells a lenghty story, in a grand style, of one more heroes another famous epic poem is Ramayana.
 * They tell about the growth of Hinduism.

__Music and Film__
 * Music is played and sung in concert, at parties or in religious settings.
 * India makes more films every year than any other country including the U.S

__The Languages of India__
 * The constituion India now reconizes is official languages
 * Indians speak 100s of languages and diealet
 * A dialect is a regional variety of a language.

__The Indo-Aryan Language Family__
 * Indo - Aryan languages are related to the Indo-European language family
 * Today about three-fourths