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	Grand Trunk Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asia's oldest and longest major roads.
		Renamed the "Grand Trunk Road" (sometimes referred to as the "Long Walk"), it was extended to run from Calcutta to Peshawar and thus to span a major portion of British India.
		The Grand Trunk Road continues to be one of the major arteries of India and Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Trunk_Road (670 words)

	The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Eluru News : Road safety given a go-by
		ELURU: The heaps of gravel dumped along the Grand Nation Trunk Road from TTD Kalyanamandapam to the police guesthouse as part of executing outfall drain works is a case in point for the utter disregard for road safety on the part of Eluru Municipal Corporation authorities.
		As the one side of the four-lane road is eclipsed by the gravel heaps, the traffic goes haywire particularly during office and school hours.
		Levelling of the road margins after completing drainage works forms part of the proposal and the contractor, entrusted with the works, reportedly dumped the gravel along the road for the purpose.
	www.hindu.com /2006/06/25/stories/2006062507570300.htm (270 words)

	RAWALPINDI CITY
		Rawalpindi lies on the Grand Trunk Road 177 from Peshawar and 275 kms from north-west from Lahore.
		The city has two main roads: the Grand Trunk Road runs roughly from east to west and is known as The Mall as it passes through the cantonment; Murree Road breaks north from The Mall, crosses the railway and brushes the east end of the old city on its way to Islamabad.
		This road was first built by the Persians in 516 BC and later developed by the Afghan King Sher Shah Suri in 1540s.
	www26.brinkster.com /ejazweb/infopindi.htm (823 words)

	India roads, Grant trunk road of India, Indian highways, Road traportation, India by Road
		And yet amidst all this, many roads retain their charm, some because of the many trees on either side of them, some because of their quaint names and some others because of their majestic appearance.
		In ancient times too there were roads and in Indian poetry the idea of a woman waiting for her beloved and keeping her eyes fixed on the pathway is a common one.
		By the Mughal period there was such hectic traffic on the roads, that a watchman was appointed and each road was guarded for the safety of travellers.
	www.indiaprofile.com /transportation/india-roads.htm (993 words)

	DAWN - Features; February 14, 2002
		That a road passes north-south just outside the gate (now closed permanently by a wall) in the parapets of the third terrace, gives credence to the general belief that the people travelling between Kashmir and Lahore had access to the Shalimar Gardens and were usually treated as royal guests.
		The road was to be 40 feet wide and was to be built in three phases.
		This part of the road was excavated at six “cardinal points” — Kharian Pass, the Sohawa-Hatti ranges on the banks of the Bakrala river, the Margalla Pass near Kala Serai, Haro, Geedar Gali and the embankments of the Chenbab and Jhelum.
	www.dawn.com /2002/02/14/fea.htm (1372 words)

	River of Life - Explore the Beauties of PAKISTAN with Sherazi - ContactPakistan.com
		The Road looms in minds of local commuters as well as foreign travelers on a scale comparable to the K 2 or the Northern Areas or the Shalimar Garden, not least because it has been around for several thousand years.
		Though the construction of the GT Road is assigned to Sher Shah Suri but some historians and researcher say that it was already there and Sher Shah Suri only improved it in consonance with his own long-term strategic plans.
		The vendors all along the road selling ceramics and furniture of Gujrat, kitchenware from Wazirabad and Gujranwala, marble and stoneware from Taxila, plants and flowers every where, basketry from Soan valley or fresh fruit of the areas from where the road happens to be passing and even carpets hanging high.
	www.contactpakistan.com /ExplorePakistan/riveroflife.html (1138 words)

	Amazon.com: Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Books: Anthony Weller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Grand Trunk has been the traditional route of invaders, as well as a conduit for new ideas and faiths.
		While the title is somewhat of a misnomer--since much of this ancient road cutting across India and Pakistan is too infested by bandits to travel after dark--make no mistake about the courage and intelligence behind this wryly observant travelogue.
		Travelling along the GT Road is an expirience that one never forgets.The author gives an historical perspective of the points along the GT Road.
	www.amazon.com /Days-Nights-Grand-Trunk-Road/dp/156924751X (1652 words)

	The Karakoram Highway - Places - 4x4 Offroaders Club Karachi
		The best way to go by road to Gilgit is by following the Grand Trunk road west over the insignificant ridge called the Margella Pass, a place that the noted British historian Sir Olaf Caroe considered being the boundary between the South Asian subcontinent and Central Asia.
		The road enters Hunza proper as it crosses to the north side of the river and passes through the village of Hini.
		The road continues through the narrow gorge, crosses the river to the east bank village of Gallapan, and reaches Murkhun.
	www.offroadpakistan.com /places/the_karakoram_h.html (2820 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Road to Pakistan's troubled borderland
		The British called it the Grand Trunk Road, but aside from naming it, the colonial authorities made only minor improvements to a route that traditionally brought conquering hordes to the subcontinent.
		These days, the GT road, as it is known in Pakistan, is a trade route between two of the country's major urban areas.
		North of the road bridge, its crystalline waters run parallel with the murky flow at the mouth of the Kabul River.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1644393.stm (817 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Grand Trunk Road (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Built by sher shah in the 16th century, it ran from sonargaon in Bengal to Lahore in the Punjab and thence to Multan.
		Thus while the main road connected Agra with Sonargaon in the east and Multan via Lahore and Delhi in the north and west, another road connected the capital with Borhanpur in the south and still another with Jodhpur in the southwest.
		The road was improved and extended up to Peshawar during the colonial period and renamed Grand Trunk Road.
	banglapedia.search.com.bd.cob-web.org:8888 /HT/G_0195.htm (299 words)

	Livius Picture Archive: Grand Trunk Road - Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Grand Trunk Road is as old as the hills.
		In the sixteenth century, the Mughal emperors paved the road.
		Today, the Grand Trunk Road is a fascinating highway, used by cars, camels, and cattle - "touching the Railway and the Telegraph on one side, and, on the other, the days of Harun al-Raschid", to borrow a phrase from Rudyard Kipling.
	www.livius.org /a/pakistan/gtr/grand_trunk_road.html (319 words)

	Grand trunk road from Peshawar to Islamabad
		Instead of semis, in Pakistan the roads are filled with these lorries.
		This is the connector road from Besham to Swat.
		The road is not quite a four wheel drive road, but did require care while driving.
	www.concordiaexpeditions.com /pakistan/grandtrunk.html (432 words)

	Amazon.com: The Grand Trunk Road: A Passage Through India: Books: Raghubir Singh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Grand Trunk Road: A Passage Through India is a photographic journey in vivid color through the lifeline of India's past and present.
		The Grand Trunk Road is the axis of the Indian subcontinent's heavily populated and politically dominant North.
		No other road carries such a baggage of history; from the Taj Mahal and the Golden Temple to the ancient battle sites of the Mahabharata; from the Buddhists' sacred Bodh Gaya to the magnificent cities of Mogul and British India.
	www.amazon.com /Grand-Trunk-Road-Passage-Through/dp/0893816442 (838 words)

	Silk Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We set off for Besham and enroute pass by Mansehra lies at junction of four roads and the place was selected for inscribing the fourteen rock edicts by the Buddhist Mauryan Emperor Asoka in 3rd century B.C. with his capital in Patna (India).
		For lunch we will move to Chillas Inn.Ahead of Chillas for next 100 kms as the road curves round the foot of Nanga Parbat mountain the area is plain being the bed of a lake came into being by a land slide from the mountain in 1840.
		There is a stone fort of 6th century AD in the North and a dirt road passes near it is remanent of real ancient silk road.Chinese archeologist found tomb near the town that date to the fifth century BC.
	www.alpine.com.pk /silk_road.html (3656 words)

	Historical Gurudwaras of India:Gurudwara Nanak Piao, Delhi
		He camped on the outskirts of Delhi in a garden now situated on the Grand Trunk Road outside old Subumandi.
		Here, now stands, a grand building of the gurdwara to commemorate the visit of the holy Guru who graced this place about 500 years ago in the reign of Sultan Sikander Shah Lodhi.
		Gurdwara Nanak Piao is located on the Grand Trunk Road (National Highway-1) between Rana Pratap Bagh and Azadpur, New Delhi.
	allaboutsikhs.com /gurudwaras/gd-nanakpiao.htm (558 words)

	Tour Pakistan's Grand Trunk Road
		The Grand Trunk Road was the brainchild of Sher Shah Suri (ruler of the Indian Sub-continent) in the sixteenth century (a.d.).
		The Grand Trunk Road Odyssey takes one from Lahore to Peshawar through northern Pakistan's major cities in comfortable mini-buses.
		Lahore (the city of gardens) is built along the banks of the river Ravi and is the capital of the province of Punjab, the land of five rivers.
	www.concordiaexpeditions.com /grandtrunk_trip.htm (626 words)

	The Road Taken
		But the Tata trucks remain, caroming down the unlit, unlined, occasionally undivided Grand Trunk with the sort of fevered recklessness that seems so often to arise in societies where poor people are suddenly tantalized by the prospect of becoming rich.
		The road's meanings, past and present, are secular analogs to the spiritual role of the River Ganges.
		Today the Grand Trunk is a channel for the changes coursing through post-colonial, post-socialist, post-Cold War Indian and Pakistani society.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/1994/07/coll.html (1445 words)

	HASSAN ABDAL - Explore the Beauties of PAKISTAN with Sherazi - ContactPakistan.com
		It is a convenient halting point of Grand Trunk Road (G T Road) from where one can go to places like Abbotabad and Northern Areas, Peshawar, Taxila, Wah, Rawalpindi.
		The most significant landmark of Hasan Abdal is a set of greatly spread red brick buildings immediately to the west of the Grand Trunk Road.
		Move away from the traffic hustle of the G T Road and what strikes you first is the emptiness.
	www.contactpakistan.com /ExplorePakistan/Hassanabdal.html (1019 words)

	Punjab - A Land of Plenty (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Punjab always had a strategic importance due to its position on the famous Grand Trunk Road that connected the eastern parts of India to the extreme northwest point of Taxila (now in Afghanistan).
		This road was first constructed by Ashoka to have a better administration of the northwestern frontier, which was always a problem.
		NH 1 or the Grand Trunk Road connects the state with most of the north as well as east India.
	www.indianvisit.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ivnew/states_of_india/punjab.html (2626 words)

	Grand Trunk Road - 828 International Area Rugs - 828 Internationl Area Rug
		828 Rugs: The rich history of the 828 Rugs Grand Trunk Road and its importance to the societies it touches inspired 828 International's GT Road Collection.
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	www.rugsale.com /828-rugs-grand-trunk-road-828-rugs-c-117_831.html (335 words)

	Elating Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As a result the city of Taxila was well connected by roads with other parts of the Mauryan empire.
		The Mauryans had built a Royal Highway from Taxila to Pataliputra, a road which was rebuilt throughout the centuries and which today survives as the Grand Trunk Road.
		Thus Sher Shah Shuri in the 16th century did not lay the foundation stone for a new road but had merely reconstructed what existed for centuries.
	indiansaga.com /others/grand.html (140 words)

	IEP-SAC - Pakistan Motorway Projects
		Pedestrians and animals which wander along and across this route during both night and day are the root cause of accidents which occur on the major road.
		The embankments and cuttings had been made for six lanes, and if the road was only built for four lanes the remaining two lanes would erode.
		Due to the likelihood of truck and bus drivers to overtake slower heavy vehicles, there would be no fast lane left for motor cars and this would slow down the fast traffic as well as be hazardous from safety point of view.
	www.iepsac.org /papers/p04a02.htm (745 words)

	eBay - grand trunk, Transportation, Model RR, Trains items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Grand Trunk Western RR pass 1953-1954 GTW frt train tr
		Grand Trunk Western RR pass 1961-1962 GTW VP109 Grant
		Grand National GN Buick Fender Trunk Emblem Emblems
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=grand+trunk+...&krd=1 (456 words)

	Redhotcurry.com - Galleries. The Grand Trunk Road: From Delhi to The Khyber Pass.
		The Grand Trunk Road: From Delhi to The Khyber Pass.
		The People’s History Museum, which tells the story of ordinary people and how they changed the world, will be hosting a free exhibition by well-known photographer Tim Smith and oral historian Irna Qureshi, titled The Grand Trunk Road.
		They include reconstructed scenes as well as objects and combine text, hands-on-exhibits and sound to vividly recreate the day-to-day lives of ordinary people at home, at work and during leisure time over the last 200 years.
	www.redhotcurry.com /entertainment/galleries/grand_trunkroad.htm (252 words)

	Gujranwala - its people and industries
		Situated along the contours of the old Grand Trunk Road, Gujranwala is famous for its Sanitary Fittings and Sanitary ware and Electric Fans and Motors.
		The Grand Trunk [GT road as it is now referred to] road [ Calcutta to Peshawar ] was built by the emperor Vikramaditya [ the king Arthur of Indian Legends] in 100 BC along with the roadside inns [ caravan serais].
		The GT road was subsequently renovated by Sher Shah Suri after deposing Humayun, who following royal ancient tradition, built along side the road many a caravan serai [ caravan inns ] and baoli [ stepped stone lined water tanks ].
	www.the-south-asian.com /Feb2004/gujranwala_.htm (1186 words)

	DinaTimes.com
		Dina is located Grand Trunk Road in the northern part of Jhelum District.
		It is approx.10 miles north of Jhelum City, where there is a junction with the road to Mangla Dam and Rohtas fort.
		The model village of Mota Gharbi is Six kilometers west off the Grand Trunk Road.
	www.dinatimes.com /index.html (346 words)

	Salon Wanderlust \| "Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road"
		On the road's edge in a square of busy shop-stalls a barber was squatting and shaving a courageous man with a straight razor.
		A few of the old private clubs from British days, like the Punjab Club where Kipling was a member, do still exist, but they have been forced over the years to shift their premises from those embarrassingly grand edifices on the Mall to obsequious lesser quarters on side streets.
		Inside, though, the arches go up, up, up past five glittering chandeliers, the balustraded mezzanines of books look over grand lawns and tennis courts, the ceilings are a dreamy swirl of flowers and skylights and inset flower mirrors.
	www.salon.com /aug97/wanderlust/passages970805.html (2430 words)

	BootsnAll.com - Cycling in Shangri-La: Bicycle Misadventures on the Roof of the World (1 of 6)
		The traffic along the Grand Trunk Road, the old Mughal imperial road that leads from Delhi via Lahore and Islamabad, was hellish.
		When we turned off the Grand Trunk Road and headed north towards Mardan, the traffic eased but we were hindered greatly by flat tires caused by tiny thorns that easily punctured our heat-softened tires.
		We were carrying a huge amount of luggage: cold-weather gear and backpacks for the mountains, plenty of medicine and cooking gear, and a large weight of spare parts and tools.
	www.bootsnall.com /travelstories/asia/oct00kkhcycle.shtml (730 words)

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