India · Tier A · world-class

The deepest commercial travel dataset for India.

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.

13,750
Indian cities
4,312
ASI monuments
17
Named circuits
13,375
Hindi narrative rows
20,119
State-tourism pages
Tourism circuits

Named multi-stop routes, members in order.

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.

Buddhist Circuit

cross-border · IN+NP

Nine pilgrimage sites following the major events of the Buddha's life. The single largest religious-tourism route in South Asia.

Lumbini · NP Tilaurakot · NP Bodh Gaya Sarnath Rajgir Nalanda Vaishali Kushinagar Sravasti

Golden Triangle

most-trafficked · 6 days

The default first-time-India route. Three cities, three architectural eras, plenty of UNESCO grounding.

Delhi Agra Jaipur

Char Dham

pilgrimage · seasonal

The four sacred Hindu pilgrimage sites of Uttarakhand. Open May–November; high-altitude logistics matter.

Yamunotri Gangotri Kedarnath Badrinath

Coastal Karnataka

beach + heritage · 5 days

Western Ghats meets Arabian Sea. Hampi-grade heritage paired with Gokarna beach stops.

Mangaluru Udupi Murudeshwara Gokarna Karwar

Desert Circuit

Rajasthan · Oct–Mar

Thar Desert oasis cities. Camel safaris + forts + saffron-coloured palace stays.

Jodhpur Osian Jaisalmer Bikaner Pushkar

Kerala Backwaters

monsoon-aware · 4 days

Houseboat-and-canal route through the Vembanad lake system. Pair with Munnar for tea-country contrast.

Kochi Alleppey Kumarakom Thekkady

Showing 6 of 17 circuits · pull any circuit slug via get_circuit('buddhist-circuit')

36 states + UTs

State-level depth, top-12 by city count.

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.

Tamil NaduIN-TN
1,330 cities · 48,365 POIs · 545 ASI
Uttar PradeshIN-UP
1,021 cities · 18,468 POIs · 756 ASI
MaharashtraIN-MH
945 cities · 81,799 POIs · 307 ASI
West BengalIN-WB
791 cities · 31,099 POIs · 89 ASI
KeralaIN-KL
649 cities · 36,695 POIs · 48 ASI
Madhya PradeshIN-MP
566 cities · 9,985 POIs · 335 ASI
RajasthanIN-RJ
431 cities · 16,733 POIs · 213 ASI
GujaratIN-GJ
410 cities · 25,086 POIs · 218 ASI
BiharIN-BR
396 cities · 5,736 POIs · 90 ASI
JharkhandIN-JH
337 cities · 4,054 POIs · 19 ASI
AssamIN-AS
245 cities · 4,590 POIs · 65 ASI
TelanganaIN-TG
230 cities · 21,564 POIs · 28 ASI

24 more states + UTs available · pull any via list_heritage_in_state('IN-MZ')

ASI heritage

The 4,312 centrally-protected monuments — including the ones nobody indexes.

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.

Protected since 1880 · IN-BR

Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya

UNESCO World Heritage. Site of the Buddha's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. Member of the Buddhist Circuit; ~96km from Patna.

Protected since 1865 · IN-KA

Group of Monuments at Hampi

UNESCO. Capital of the Vijayanagara Empire (14th–16th c.). 1,600+ surviving monuments across 41km² of boulder-strewn landscape.

Protected since 2010 · IN-MZ

Vangchhia Necropolis

Iron-age engraved stone monoliths in Mizoram. Virtually absent from mainstream travel guides; surfaces in our heritage filter alongside more famous peers.

Protected since 1958 · IN-GJ

Rani ki Vav, Patan

UNESCO. 11th-century inverted-temple stepwell with 500+ sculptures across 7 levels. Lost under Saraswati river silt for 700 years; excavated 1960s.

Protected since 1885 · IN-MP

Khajuraho Group of Monuments

UNESCO. 10th–12th c. Chandela temples, intricately carved. Only ~25 of an original 85+ survive.

Protected since 1909 · IN-MH

Ajanta Caves

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')

Who buys India depth

Three customer shapes.

State tourism boards

Bihar, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan. On-prem deployment with weekly Parquet deltas; their data sovereignty + your circuit + heritage layer + Hindi narratives.

Talk to sales →

Inbound DMCs + OTAs

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 →

Indian-language travel AI

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.

See Saaral Travel use case →