Great Indian Railway Journeys

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Great Indian Railway Journeys

In Lucknow, Michael Portillo tastes the kebabs, stops off at Bodh Gaya, and in Kolkata, he glimpses colonial Calcutta in the grand Great Eastern Hotel.

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Series 1
Michael Portillo travels from Mysuru to the first stronghold of the East India Company in Chennai.
Michael Portillo travels from Jodhpur to Delhi, heading into the desert to take a camel ride to a village where life has changed little in centuries.
Guided by his Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael Portillo embarks on a rail journey from Amritsar to Shimla.
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