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Despite all that embalmers and mausoleums can do, people are highly perishable, soon gone from this earth, while cities and geographic sites last longer.
The sights are endless: the Hindu gopuram tower-gates of the south, the temples of Varanasi (Benares), the cave monasteries of Ajanta and Ellora, the beautiful and erotic sculptures of Khajuraho, the splendid marble palaces, fortresses, and mausoleums of the emperors and maharajas in Delhi, Agra, and Rajasthan, the colonial government buildings in New Delhi, or the unusual style of the Gothic-Oriental railway station in Mumbai (known until 1995 as Bombay).
In Eastern Europe, exhumed bodies have been used as symbols by political parties, as anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains in her forthcoming book, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Postsocialist Transformation . For instance, liberal reform parties have disinterred Communist leaders from their mausoleums while reburying pre-Communist nationalist heroes in elaborate sarcophagi.
This most faithful lieutenant of the Tokugawa clan distinguished himself by planting the cedar forest around the shoguns’ mausoleums at Nikko.
Massive marble mausoleums line the principal avenues of the cemetery, a vast city of the dead established in the late 1800s.